poor taste, in
in poor taste
Inappropriate or offensive; vulgar or crude. Wearing such a bright outfit to a funeral would be in really poor taste. Even though the joke was in poor taste, everyone in the audience laughed hysterically at it.
See also: poor, taste
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
poor taste, in
Also, in bad taste. Not suitable, unseemly, offensive, as in His criticism of the Pope was in poor taste, or That television interview was in very bad taste. These idioms use taste in the sense of "discernment of what is appropriate."
See also: poor
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- in poor taste
- make a better, good, poor, etc. fist of something
- make a poor fist of (something)
- mice
- poor as a church mouse
- poor as a churchmouse
- (as) poor as a church mouse
- church
- churchmouse
- dirt-poor