get the worst of it

get the worst of it (third-person singular simple present gets the worst of it, present participle getting the worst of it, simple past got the worst of it, past participle gotten the worst of it or got the worst of it)

1. To suffer the most as a result of a defeat; to be the most badly affected.

   Sure the others had a couple scuff marks, but he got the worst of it with all the bruises.

• have the worst of it
• come out worse

• “get the worst of it”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “get the worst of it”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “get the worst of it”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “get the worst of it”, in Collins English Dictionary.