bad

a bad apple: see a rotten apple atapple.

bad blood: seeblood.

bad cess: seecess.

a bad day at the office an instance or brief period of comparative lack of success, regarded as being uncharacteristic and temporary.

2010Irish Times The great sportsmen and women occasionally endure a bad day at the office without a scintilla of blame being attached.

bad hair day a day on which everything seems to go wrong, characterized as a day on which your hair is particularly unmanageable.

2010The Register I found the Street View … took a while to load, and sometimes didn't load at all. Maybe my net connection's having a bad hair day.

a bad lot: seelot.

a bad quarter of an hour a short but very unpleasant period of time; an unnerving experience.

☞ A bad quarter of an hour is a translation of the French phrase un mauvais quart d'heure, which has also been current in English since the mid 19th century.

a bad workman blames his tools: seeworkman.

be bad news: seenews.

give a dog a bad name: seedog.

give something up as a bad job: seejob.

have got it bad (or badly) be very powerfully affected emotionally, especially by love. informal

in bad with out of favour with. North American informal

2003The Nation His undiplomatic pugnacity put him in bad with his boss, Henry Kissinger, but won him a ticket to the Senate.

my bad used to acknowledge responsibility for a mistake. North American informal

too bad used to indicate that something is regrettable but now beyond retrieval. informal

turn up like a bad penny: seepenny.