Translation for 'expect the worst' from English to Russian

to expect the worst

ожидать худшего

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to bring out the worst in sb.

выявлять дурные черты в ком-л.

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worst

наихудший {adj}

to expect

ожидать

to expect [suppose]

предполагать [несов.]

to expect (of, from)

ожидать (от) [несов.]

the environment

окружающая среда {ж}

(the) press

печать {ж} [пресса]журн.

the deceased

усопший {м} [книжн.]

the past

прошлое {с}

the Precambrian

докембрий {м}геол.

the Bronx

Бронкс {м}геогр.

the Apocalypse

Апокалипсис {м}библ.религ.

The Hague

Гаага {ж}геогр.

(the) Lord

Господь {м}религ.

to the right

направо {adv}

справа {adv}

the Pope

Папа {м} (Римский)религ.

the Sahara

Сахара {ж}геогр.

The Smurfs

Смурфикилит.ТВF

the Andes

Анды {мн}геогр.

• An alternative expression, again in British culture, is "hope for the best, expect the worst".
• In his 1976 autobiography, he recalled the event as foreshadowing extremism: “I began to expect the worst: that the democratic bastions of Central Europe would fall, and that a totalitarian Germany would start another war”.
• Rahman was advised to expect the worst so that there was no disappointment later.
• Generally people with DPD are also pessimistic: they expect the worst out of situations or believe that the worst will happen.