get the worst of it

Meaning

1. to be defeated

   He'd been in a fight and had obviously got the worst of it.

In the movies · 2

• Europe got the worst of it, that's what everybody's saying.War of the Worlds2005
• And you know who gets the worst of it.She Loves Me2016
• I'd hate to see her getting the worst of both worlds. It'll ruin her.A Passage to India1984
• I would get him into the worst sort of trouble...The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003
• I can get this guy. The worst thing a paperhanger can do is show his face.Catch Me If You Can2002

Learn it in full scenes

• A Passage to India1984
  • Aziz Meets Mrs Moore in the Mosque
  • The Bridge Party at the Club
  • Aziz Invites Them to the Marabar Caves

From the same entry

• be your own worst enemy
• come off worst
• at worst
• bring out the worst in
• do your worst
• if the worst comes to the worst
• the worst of all worlds
• can't be bad
• have got it bad
• not bad
• too bad
• go to the bad