bad break

bad break

1. Something that has gone awry or not as one expected, with the implication that it is the product of bad luck. I can't believe you didn't get that part in the play. What a bad break. Shelly had a bad break this morning when her car wouldn't start.
2. A fracture of a bone that is particularly extreme or not conducive to proper healing. Unfortunately it was a bad break, and your leg will have to be in a cast for six months.
See also: bad, break
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • get off on the wrong foot
  • start off on the wrong foot
  • for the best
  • all for the best
  • comp
  • have the devil's (own) luck
  • bad cess to
  • bad cess to (one)
  • cess
  • as luck would have it
References in periodicals archive
"It's a bad break and his racing career is definitely ovr but we will be able to save him alright.
Moes Tavern blow
He added: "I had a bad break in my finger and a dislocation.
I'M NOT THE NEW FREDDY SAYS STOKES; CRICKET
He battled his way back to the fringe, but then suffered his latest bad break.
Football: Piper: Healy will beat bad break
"If it keeps blowing like this and the nerves get going, I don't want to wish badly on anyone, but if he takes his foot off the gas or has a bad break here and there, it really gives you thought of catching him."
BIG ERNIE GIVES HOPE TO THE CHASING PACK
"The medical team were very good and put a splint on soon after the fall and thankfully it wasn't a bad break," Codd said before he was about to undergo surgery to his left femur at Waterford Regional Hospital in Ardkeen.
Codd praises medical team after fall that broke his leg
"The second rider, a 23-year-old Walsall man, had a bad break to his lower left arm.
Bike pair hurt in accident
BAD BREAK Davy Russell suffered a fractured arm on Saturday at
RUSSELL FACES PUNCHESTOWN FITNESS RACE
"They were unsure of whether I'd need an operation as normally the collarbone can heal over time, but I must have landed very awkwardly as it was a bad break.
Balding words lift injured Pearce
Q: I broke my leg in an accident a couple of months ago, and have been off work ever since as it was a pretty bad break.
Home visit over broken leg; in association with fish4jobs Know Your Rights
BAD BREAK J Levet's French Open celebration cost him dear
I WILL GO FOR BROKE
A crestfallen Owen McKenna yesterday reported that his star tracker had sustained a bad break. He said: "I was actually in Cork myself but it appears it happened between the first two bends.
Tubbertelly Dubh hit by injury
"It was apparently a bad break to mend but everything is fine and dad is doing really well.
DECK CHAY; Sailing legend breaks his leg on pal's yacht
Patrick Stroudley, London Bad break with Binocular A real shame about Binocular.
CHATROOM; The best of your emails
Q: I broke my leg in an accident a couple of months ago and have been off work ever since as it was a pretty bad break.
Know Your Rights: Bosses want to check my broken leg
"He got a bad break on 17 with a lip-out but that is one heck of a round.
I was so afraid I'd jinx Rory