worst timeline
- noun
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peor línea de tiempo
- This is the worst timeline I can imagine.
Examples
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Online discussions often refer to 2020 as the worst timeline because of all the global crises.
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He joked that losing the championship was proof they’d entered the worst timeline.
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After hearing the news, she sighed and said it felt like we were in the worst timeline.
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In a worst timeline, everything goes wrong.
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After hearing the news, she sighed and said it felt like we were in the worst timeline.
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He joked that losing the championship was proof they’d entered the worst timeline.
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Online discussions often refer to 2020 as the worst timeline because of all the global crises.
Synonyms
A situation when many bad things happen, often said jokingly
A very serious situation likely to have bad results
How Bad
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the transparent superlative 'worst' with 'timeline' (a sequence or version of events), so its meaning — an imagined sequence of events with especially bad outcomes — is directly inferable from the constituents. This compositional pattern (i.e., forming the worst/best version of a situation) is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to understand the expression.
Etymology
Worst timeline comes from online talk about alternate worlds, where each timeline is a different version of events and the worst one is the version with the most bad things. So people use it to say a situation feels like the 'very bad' version of reality.