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go from bad to worse
vs
kick a dog when it's down
go from bad to worse
verb
to become even worse
kick a dog when it's down
verb
To make things worse for someone in an adverse situation.
How often have the words
go from bad to worse
and
kick a dog when it's down
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)