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so much the worse

so much the worse phrase: that is or would be even worse.

Phrase

so much the worse

  1. That is or would be even worse.
    • "Ah! So much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Antonyms of so much the worse

Questions about so much the worse

What does so much the worse mean?
So much the worse means that is or would be even worse.
What part of speech is so much the worse?
So much the worse is a phrase.

Words near so much the worse in the dictionary

  1. so much
  2. so much as
  3. so much for
  4. so much so
  5. so much the better
  6. so much the worse
  7. so much the worse for
  8. so much win
  9. so on
  10. so quiet one can hear a pin drop
  11. so quiet one could hear a pin drop

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