bad trot

bad trot

A moment or period of specific misfortune or bad luck. Primarily heard in Australia. I can feel it! The next horse race will be the end of my bad trot!
See also: bad, trot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bad iron
  • bad cess to
  • bad cess to (one)
  • cess
  • in (someone's) bad books
  • in someone's bad books
  • have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
  • have a good, bad, high, low, etc. opinion of somebody/something
  • downhill all the way
  • be downhill all the way
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"We accept he's having a bit of a bad trot, but we know he can turn that round and perform like we know he can.
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Hoggard went to hospital for treatment on the lacerations, below his thumb, and said: "When the team has one injury you seem to get more, and we are just in a very bad trot of luck.
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He's had a bad trot with injuries in the last couple of years, but I reckon if he can steer relatively clear of them in the future he has a chance of going right to the top in rugby league.
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Blaydon stick with the same team as do opponents Sunderland, while the Academy play a South Shields side in a bad trot of form with three defeats in a row.
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"To do what Ricky has done over so many years has been simply outstanding but unfortunately there will come a time when you get older and you can't get runs and you have a bad trot," said Gatting, the last English captain to win the Ashes on Australian soil.
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We'll accept he's having a bit of a bad trot but we also know he can turn that around and perform.
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"We'll accept he's having a bit of a bad trot butwe knowhe can turn that around."
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"When you have one injury you seem to get more and we are just in a very bad trot of luck."
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'It's also not the greatest time to be in this bad trot with it being Ryder Cup year.
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'But, in that last season I was there we started to get into a bad trot and suddenly there was no way out.
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It's only the captaincy which has made him fireproof, but there are too many other promising young batsmen around for Ray Illingworth to allow this bad trot to continue.
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Firstly, Salford are on a bad trot of their own having lost their last five in Super League, suffering a number of injuries in the process.
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"Steve's scored around 700 runs in each of the last five seasons but he's having a bad trot at the moment.
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