| 单词 | bad off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad off 2. bad off: = badly off at badly adv. 2c. Now colloquial and regional. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] poorc1300 afflicta1393 mistada1400 aggrudged1440 afflicted1534 tribulate1575 distressed1586 rid1610 over-grieved1618 ridden1640 tribulated1682 hag-rid1691 crosseda1732 bad off1735 badly off1740 unfortunate1785 1735 ‘A Young Gentleman’ New Voy. Georgia 19 Our Companions came back to us, but without one Morsel of Provision,..so that we were then almost as bad off as before, save only our having our Guns. 1736 W. Ellis New Exper. Husbandry 14 If they don't manure, then the Thistles and Weeds choak the Barley, and they are as bad off this Way. 1794 N. Parry Jrnl. in Kentucky Hist. Soc. Reg. (1936) 34 383 He told me when he 1st settled this place, he feared he sho'd be bad off for water. 1815 D. Humphreys Yankey in Eng. 77 Bad as I am off, I wouldn't swop conditions. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner ii. xix. 332 I should ha' been bad off without my work: it was what I held by when everything else was gone from me. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxix. 179 I told him how bad off I was. 1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer ii. 38 You're as bad off as mesel', Gypo, so ye know what I mane. No man has pity on us. 1972 D. Wolf Foul! i. 10 I knew we were pretty bad off. Even my friends had a few cents in their pockets most of the time. 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel ii. 13 His being around helped Shirley and me through the tough times, although we never considered ourselves that bad off. < as lemmas |
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