To know the worst. A sea-phrase.
“It is much better for the ministry to touch bottom at once and know the whole truth, than to remain any longer in suspense.”—Newspaper paragraph, January, 1886.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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