fear the worst idiom
C2 担心发生最糟糕的情况
to think something unpleasant might have happened
We hoped that they would be found safe and uninjured, but secretly we feared the worst. 我们希望找到他们时他们安然无恙，但内心却害怕最糟糕的事会发生。
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