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go from bad to worse
vs
kick someone when they are down
go from bad to worse
verb
to become even worse
kick someone when they are down
verb
To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time.
How often have the words
go from bad to worse
and
kick someone when they are down
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)