英语词汇“too bad”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1.

a. In various proverbial phrases.

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1608 J. Denison Three-fold Resolvtion ii. 422 Wee haue an old saying: That is no bad day, that hath a good night.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 215 It is also said, Al mal vso, quebrarle la pierna. A bad Custome is better broken then kept.

1774 J. Schaw Jrnl. Lady of Quality (1921) 57 She now says that if there were not bad women, there would be no bad men.

1824 ‘J. Wade’ Sel. Proverbs All Nations i. 73 Who is bad to his own is bad to himself.

1851 G. E. Sargent Egerton Roscoe iii. 34 There is nothing so bad, but it might have been worse..here we are safe at home again, in dry skins too.

a1890 H. P. Liddon Serm. O.T. Subj. (1891) xi. 159 The current..proverb, that ‘a bad woman is much worse than a bad man’.

1953 Law & Contemp. Problems 18 22 To remember that bad cases make bad law, and to consider values and purposes and procedures as they affect the common weal.

b. bad is the best: the best option available is still a poor one (frequently implying resigned acceptance of this state of affairs). Now rare.

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1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 57^v Badde is the best, the world amendes lyke sower ale in Sommer.

a1644 F. Quarles Solomon's Recantation (1648) ii. 11 Take what may be had; Bad is the best, then make the best of bad.

1719 T. Killigrew Chit-chat i. 6 I confess bad is the best.

1800 M. Edgeworth Will in Pop. Tales (1804) I. iv. 172 Bad's the best, if that be the best of her characters.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. ii. 45 The meal was as good as the island could afford, but ‘bad is the best’ here.

1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways in Oxf. & Cotswolds ix. 218 The reader will exclaim that bad is the best.

1958 Proc. Aristotelian Soc., Suppl. Vol. 32 172 This seems the best choice for the advocate of propositional identity; but, as Lewy is well aware, bad is the best.

P2. In negative (usually predicative) constructions, indicating that something is less bad than it might be (or have been), or (by litotes) that it is fairly good, or merits some praise or commendation.

a. no bad ——.

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1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. v. sig. J.iii^v It should be no bad councell.., that euermore when one house is on sweeping, another spytte may cry creake at the fire.

1653 R. Boyle Let. Jan. in Corr. (2001) I. 141 Gerhard..hath publish'd a Harmonicall Synopsis of the..Tongues, which would be no bad Isagoge to the Easterne Languages, if it were not so wretchedly false printed.

1738 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) I. 10 On your left hand is the fire, (no bad thing this weather), and on your right a window.

1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 363 We are no bad risers in the morning, but we never saw the sun rise on Midsummer-day but once.

1944 T. S. C. Dagg Hockey in Ireland vi. 142 He was also a good cricketer and golfer.., and no bad hand at sailing a boat.

2004 Archit. Rev. June 58/1 That it may all be reorganized by fresh curators with a new world-view seems no bad thing.

b. colloquial. not bad (and contracted forms). Also not a bad ——, not so bad, not too bad, etc.not half bad: see half adv. Phrases 2a.

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1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 109 Nine days throughout right braue they feast, y^e banquets were not bad.

1694 A. Boyer Compl. French-master xxxii. 225/2 Is the Wine good? It is not bad. Let's drink then.

1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 15 Nov. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 176 It is not a bad old town.

1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 65 The intermezzo was not bad; the music pretty, but old.

1810 C. Stewart tr. Trav. Mirza Abu Taleb Khan II. xxiv. 133 The gentlemen put up with bad food, and worse wine; and whenever I complained, they took great pains to persuade me the things were not so bad, or that the master of the house was not in fault.

1835 Naut. Mag. 4 689 The idea of a sailor's chemise is not bad.

1838 in E. Eden Up the Country (1866) I. 129 These [letters] are five months old, but that is not so bad.

1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. viii. 105 And a-travellin' about, and a-livin' on the best, and sleepin' in the spare bed always, ain't a bad move nother.

1860 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Oct. 26 ‘Not bad!’ Bloomfield replied with a loud laugh.

1880 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 909/1 They prefer, when the nominations are not too bad, to vote the regular ticket.

1900 W. R. Kennedy Hurrah Life Sailor xii. 180 We had bagged three bulls before breakfast, which was not so bad.

1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 3 Apr. (1988) I. 517 He plumes himself on being as well as an art critic..and a poet (not at all bad), an archimage in the arts of eating and drinking.

1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 2/4 ‘So The American Boy , at two dollars, isn't such a bad bargain after all’... ‘Not a bad job of research’, said the editor... ‘We'll have to score a bulls-eye for Karl.’

1954 P. G. Wodehouse & G. R. Bolton Bring on Girls i. 19 ‘What did you think of our little entertainment?’..‘Not bad,’ said Plum.

1972 R. Maugham Servant i. i. 3 The rooms aren't bad but the furniture's ghastly.

1992 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. c4/1 Turkey vultures are not normally found in a wetlands ecosystem... This river might not look so bad, but biologically it is very degraded.

2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon ii. 173 Not a bad movie—quite moving, actually.

P3. regional and nonstandard. to be taken bad: to be taken ill. Also to take bad. Cf. sense A. 10.

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1716 J. Hempstead Diary 9 Aug. (1998) 57 Joshua was taken Extream bad about Midnight.

1783 H. L. Thrale Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) II. cccxix. 307 If any of the girls should be taken bad here (as Sophia seems now half inclinable).

1828 J. Porter Field of Forty Footsteps x, in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps III. 188 The young lady..was sent to the sea-side for air, and her brother with her; for he took bad in the same fever.

1861 S. Lover MacCarthy More ii, in Lacy's Acting Ed. Plays ii. vi. 33 Rose, herself, was taken bad, The fever worse each day was growin'.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers xiv. 383 I was only here a day or two before I was taken bad.

1979 B. Bainbridge Another Part of Wood vii. 153 I hear you took bad last evening, had one of those attacks.

1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies i. ii. 31 Rama went to the temple to do a pooja for Mother. The others, well, they didn't know she was taken bad, did they?

P4. too bad: extremely unfortunate or regrettable. Frequently in just too bad. Also as int. Cf. too adv. 2c.

a. Used sympathetically or neutrally.

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1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxv. 91 The place appoynted thus, it neyther shall be clad, With Arras nor with Tapystry, such paltrie were too bad.

?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D2 Either witles, which is too bad, or wilfull, which is worse.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 539 'Tis too bad if the tenant pays not his easie rent, but to make strip and waste of the trees on his Land-lords ground, this is more intolerable.

1789 T. Twining Let. 14 Apr. (1991) I. 309 That you..shd. have the additional..business upon yr hands..is, in the current phrase, too bad.

1816 J. Austen Let. 13 Mar. (1995) 310 It really is too bad!—Not allowing them to be happy together, when they are married.

1867 College Courant 27 Nov. 114/3 ‘Just’ is a pet word; ‘it is just too bad’.

1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny xviii. 222 You loved Walter..; and you sent him off on my account. It is just too bad!

1885 Sporting Times 11 Apr. 1/4 Too bad, too bad! after getting fourteen days or forty bob, the bally rag don't even mention it.

1908 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 9 Sept. 2/3 ‘Gee! I'm full up to my neck.’ ‘That's too bad, for we are going to have pie.’

1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 316 It's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you.

2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 Aug. 23 ‘They're giving her a wedding shower!’ ‘Too bad there isn't a deal like that for the guys.’

b. Used unsympathetically, enjoining acceptance of the circumstances.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > unfortunate but inevitable

just too bad1929

(that's) tough1958

1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest x. 101 If the boy friend doesn't like it, it's just too bad.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top vii. 64 ‘Teddy wouldn't understand. Our relationship is strictly platonic.’..‘I'm trying to take June on a platonic weekend. Of course, it'll be too bad if she has a platonic baby.’

1962 ‘S. Woods’ Bloody Instr. viii. 87 I admit you'll come in for some rough handling, and that's just too bad.

1986 F. Christopher Sweet Tomorrows 279 I suppose you want more of those French blues? Well, too bad. I sold the last lot I'd come across.

1996 D. Lindley Where does Weirdness Go? iii. 163 They [sc. certain experiments] force a fundamental change in the way we think about reality, but..that's just too bad.

2002 Wargames Illustrated Apr. 32/2 If no cards remain for the low bidder, then too bad. Hard cheese for him.

P5. to go bad: (esp. of food) to decay, putrefy, ‘go off’. Cf. sense A. 1a.

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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)]

marc1225

pairc1390

starvec1400

dispair1580

to go off1583

die1612

spoil1692

to go bad1799

to go wrong1882

to go in the tank1974

1799 Monthly Mag. Oct. 764 This root, after having been covered with water, goes bad, and cannot be kept for any length of time.

1864 Times 1 Jan. 4/6 [He] has already sent me over eggs of fera [sc. a kind of fish]—most of them gone bad, alas!

1884 Daily News 25 Dec. 3/4 It ‘goes bad’ more readily than..cooked butcher's meat.

1929 F. T. Jesse Lacquer Lady iii. 17 Dried fish which has been allowed to go bad.

1968 Somerset Life Oct. 26/2 After washing and shearing the skins are then bleached and ‘chromed’ to ensure that they will never go bad.

1978 G. Greene Human Factor iii. i. 102 Peanuts when they go bad produce a mould.

2001 J. Franzen Corrections 419 A thousand dollars' worth of unrotated duck breasts and veal chops had gone bad in the walk-in.

P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). to have (got) it bad: to be in the grip of a powerful enthusiasm or infatuation; esp. to have fallen in love.to have got 'em bad: see get v. Phrases 4a.

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1867 Harper's Mag. Aug. 403/1 There are really good people in Boston; who believe in Boston; who have got it bad.

1882 D. C. Murray Coals of Fire I. 145 It's a rum thing—luv... I'n got it bad an' no mistake. I suppose I'n got it about as bad as a mon ever had it. But Lord bless thee, Willy-yum, it's a sickness as wo't kill nobody.

1897 E. W. Merriman Diamonds & Hearts ii. ii. 25 I love yeh, an' I wanter marry yeh. O Lord, I can't say it right ! But I've got it bad, indeed I have.

1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 263 You seem to have got it pretty bad.

1941 P. F. Webster & D. Ellington (title of song) I got it bad and that ain't good.

1993 Harper's Mag. Feb. 52/2 Back in the dark days when I had it bad for Freeda.

2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xiv. 135 He has that glow about him that everybody gets when they get it bad.

P7. a bad day at the office: a day on which one has performed badly, esp. at work; a day which has been unusually difficult or unsatisfactory.Originally with literal reference to office work; now chiefly in extended use, esp. in sporting contexts.

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1896 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 12 Dec. 3/1 A Bad Day at the Office is Followed by a Very Bad Evening at Home.

1942 Joplin (Missouri) News Herald 27 Feb. 12/2 I had a bad day at the office and this sounds like the proper heel to take the brunt of my righteous wrath.

1989 Times 11 Dec. 32/7 It was just that occasional bad day at the office that everyone is entitled to, a day for Pears that..included missing five out of seven goal-kicking attempts.

2010 Irish Times 25 Sept. a12/2 The great sportsmen and women occasionally endure a bad day at the office without a scintilla of blame being attached.

单词	too bad
释义	> as lemmas too bad Phrases P1. a. In various proverbial phrases. ΚΠ 1608 J. Denison Three-fold Resolvtion ii. 422 Wee haue an old saying: That is no bad day, that hath a good night. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 215 It is also said, Al mal vso, quebrarle la pierna. A bad Custome is better broken then kept. 1774 J. Schaw Jrnl. Lady of Quality (1921) 57 She now says that if there were not bad women, there would be no bad men. 1824 ‘J. Wade’ Sel. Proverbs All Nations i. 73 Who is bad to his own is bad to himself. 1851 G. E. Sargent Egerton Roscoe iii. 34 There is nothing so bad, but it might have been worse..here we are safe at home again, in dry skins too. a1890 H. P. Liddon Serm. O.T. Subj. (1891) xi. 159 The current..proverb, that ‘a bad woman is much worse than a bad man’. 1953 Law & Contemp. Problems 18 22 To remember that bad cases make bad law, and to consider values and purposes and procedures as they affect the common weal. b. bad is the best: the best option available is still a poor one (frequently implying resigned acceptance of this state of affairs). Now rare. ΚΠ 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 57^v Badde is the best, the world amendes lyke sower ale in Sommer. a1644 F. Quarles Solomon's Recantation (1648) ii. 11 Take what may be had; Bad is the best, then make the best of bad. 1719 T. Killigrew Chit-chat i. 6 I confess bad is the best. 1800 M. Edgeworth Will in Pop. Tales (1804) I. iv. 172 Bad's the best, if that be the best of her characters. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. ii. 45 The meal was as good as the island could afford, but ‘bad is the best’ here. 1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways in Oxf. & Cotswolds ix. 218 The reader will exclaim that bad is the best. 1958 Proc. Aristotelian Soc., Suppl. Vol. 32 172 This seems the best choice for the advocate of propositional identity; but, as Lewy is well aware, bad is the best. P2. In negative (usually predicative) constructions, indicating that something is less bad than it might be (or have been), or (by litotes) that it is fairly good, or merits some praise or commendation. a. no bad ——. ΚΠ 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. v. sig. J.iii^v It should be no bad councell.., that euermore when one house is on sweeping, another spytte may cry creake at the fire. 1653 R. Boyle Let. Jan. in Corr. (2001) I. 141 Gerhard..hath publish'd a Harmonicall Synopsis of the..Tongues, which would be no bad Isagoge to the Easterne Languages, if it were not so wretchedly false printed. 1738 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) I. 10 On your left hand is the fire, (no bad thing this weather), and on your right a window. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 363 We are no bad risers in the morning, but we never saw the sun rise on Midsummer-day but once. 1944 T. S. C. Dagg Hockey in Ireland vi. 142 He was also a good cricketer and golfer.., and no bad hand at sailing a boat. 2004 Archit. Rev. June 58/1 That it may all be reorganized by fresh curators with a new world-view seems no bad thing. b. colloquial. not bad (and contracted forms). Also not a bad ——, not so bad, not too bad, etc.not half bad: see half adv. Phrases 2a. ΚΠ 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 109 Nine days throughout right braue they feast, y^e banquets were not bad. 1694 A. Boyer Compl. French-master xxxii. 225/2 Is the Wine good? It is not bad. Let's drink then. 1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 15 Nov. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 176 It is not a bad old town. 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 65 The intermezzo was not bad; the music pretty, but old. 1810 C. Stewart tr. Trav. Mirza Abu Taleb Khan II. xxiv. 133 The gentlemen put up with bad food, and worse wine; and whenever I complained, they took great pains to persuade me the things were not so bad, or that the master of the house was not in fault. 1835 Naut. Mag. 4 689 The idea of a sailor's chemise is not bad. 1838 in E. Eden Up the Country (1866) I. 129 These [letters] are five months old, but that is not so bad. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. viii. 105 And a-travellin' about, and a-livin' on the best, and sleepin' in the spare bed always, ain't a bad move nother. 1860 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Oct. 26 ‘Not bad!’ Bloomfield replied with a loud laugh. 1880 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 909/1 They prefer, when the nominations are not too bad, to vote the regular ticket. 1900 W. R. Kennedy Hurrah Life Sailor xii. 180 We had bagged three bulls before breakfast, which was not so bad. 1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 3 Apr. (1988) I. 517 He plumes himself on being as well as an art critic..and a poet (not at all bad), an archimage in the arts of eating and drinking. 1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 2/4 ‘So The American Boy , at two dollars, isn't such a bad bargain after all’... ‘Not a bad job of research’, said the editor... ‘We'll have to score a bulls-eye for Karl.’ 1954 P. G. Wodehouse & G. R. Bolton Bring on Girls i. 19 ‘What did you think of our little entertainment?’..‘Not bad,’ said Plum. 1972 R. Maugham Servant i. i. 3 The rooms aren't bad but the furniture's ghastly. 1992 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. c4/1 Turkey vultures are not normally found in a wetlands ecosystem... This river might not look so bad, but biologically it is very degraded. 2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon ii. 173 Not a bad movie—quite moving, actually. P3. regional and nonstandard. to be taken bad: to be taken ill. Also to take bad. Cf. sense A. 10. ΚΠ 1716 J. Hempstead Diary 9 Aug. (1998) 57 Joshua was taken Extream bad about Midnight. 1783 H. L. Thrale Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) II. cccxix. 307 If any of the girls should be taken bad here (as Sophia seems now half inclinable). 1828 J. Porter Field of Forty Footsteps x, in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps III. 188 The young lady..was sent to the sea-side for air, and her brother with her; for he took bad in the same fever. 1861 S. Lover MacCarthy More ii, in Lacy's Acting Ed. Plays ii. vi. 33 Rose, herself, was taken bad, The fever worse each day was growin'. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers xiv. 383 I was only here a day or two before I was taken bad. 1979 B. Bainbridge Another Part of Wood vii. 153 I hear you took bad last evening, had one of those attacks. 1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies i. ii. 31 Rama went to the temple to do a pooja for Mother. The others, well, they didn't know she was taken bad, did they? P4. too bad: extremely unfortunate or regrettable. Frequently in just too bad. Also as int. Cf. too adv. 2c. a. Used sympathetically or neutrally. ΚΠ 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxv. 91 The place appoynted thus, it neyther shall be clad, With Arras nor with Tapystry, such paltrie were too bad. ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D2 Either witles, which is too bad, or wilfull, which is worse. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 539 'Tis too bad if the tenant pays not his easie rent, but to make strip and waste of the trees on his Land-lords ground, this is more intolerable. 1789 T. Twining Let. 14 Apr. (1991) I. 309 That you..shd. have the additional..business upon yr hands..is, in the current phrase, too bad. 1816 J. Austen Let. 13 Mar. (1995) 310 It really is too bad!—Not allowing them to be happy together, when they are married. 1867 College Courant 27 Nov. 114/3 ‘Just’ is a pet word; ‘it is just too bad’. 1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny xviii. 222 You loved Walter..; and you sent him off on my account. It is just too bad! 1885 Sporting Times 11 Apr. 1/4 Too bad, too bad! after getting fourteen days or forty bob, the bally rag don't even mention it. 1908 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 9 Sept. 2/3 ‘Gee! I'm full up to my neck.’ ‘That's too bad, for we are going to have pie.’ 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 316 It's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you. 2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 Aug. 23 ‘They're giving her a wedding shower!’ ‘Too bad there isn't a deal like that for the guys.’ b. Used unsympathetically, enjoining acceptance of the circumstances. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > unfortunate but inevitable just too bad1929 (that's) tough1958 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest x. 101 If the boy friend doesn't like it, it's just too bad. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top vii. 64 ‘Teddy wouldn't understand. Our relationship is strictly platonic.’..‘I'm trying to take June on a platonic weekend. Of course, it'll be too bad if she has a platonic baby.’ 1962 ‘S. Woods’ Bloody Instr. viii. 87 I admit you'll come in for some rough handling, and that's just too bad. 1986 F. Christopher Sweet Tomorrows 279 I suppose you want more of those French blues? Well, too bad. I sold the last lot I'd come across. 1996 D. Lindley Where does Weirdness Go? iii. 163 They [sc. certain experiments] force a fundamental change in the way we think about reality, but..that's just too bad. 2002 Wargames Illustrated Apr. 32/2 If no cards remain for the low bidder, then too bad. Hard cheese for him. P5. to go bad: (esp. of food) to decay, putrefy, ‘go off’. Cf. sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] marc1225 pairc1390 starvec1400 dispair1580 to go off1583 die1612 spoil1692 to go bad1799 to go wrong1882 to go in the tank1974 1799 Monthly Mag. Oct. 764 This root, after having been covered with water, goes bad, and cannot be kept for any length of time. 1864 Times 1 Jan. 4/6 [He] has already sent me over eggs of fera [sc. a kind of fish]—most of them gone bad, alas! 1884 Daily News 25 Dec. 3/4 It ‘goes bad’ more readily than..cooked butcher's meat. 1929 F. T. Jesse Lacquer Lady iii. 17 Dried fish which has been allowed to go bad. 1968 Somerset Life Oct. 26/2 After washing and shearing the skins are then bleached and ‘chromed’ to ensure that they will never go bad. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor iii. i. 102 Peanuts when they go bad produce a mould. 2001 J. Franzen Corrections 419 A thousand dollars' worth of unrotated duck breasts and veal chops had gone bad in the walk-in. P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). to have (got) it bad: to be in the grip of a powerful enthusiasm or infatuation; esp. to have fallen in love.to have got 'em bad: see get v. Phrases 4a. ΚΠ 1867 Harper's Mag. Aug. 403/1 There are really good people in Boston; who believe in Boston; who have got it bad. 1882 D. C. Murray Coals of Fire I. 145 It's a rum thing—luv... I'n got it bad an' no mistake. I suppose I'n got it about as bad as a mon ever had it. But Lord bless thee, Willy-yum, it's a sickness as wo't kill nobody. 1897 E. W. Merriman Diamonds & Hearts ii. ii. 25 I love yeh, an' I wanter marry yeh. O Lord, I can't say it right ! But I've got it bad, indeed I have. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 263 You seem to have got it pretty bad. 1941 P. F. Webster & D. Ellington (title of song) I got it bad and that ain't good. 1993 Harper's Mag. Feb. 52/2 Back in the dark days when I had it bad for Freeda. 2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xiv. 135 He has that glow about him that everybody gets when they get it bad. P7. a bad day at the office: a day on which one has performed badly, esp. at work; a day which has been unusually difficult or unsatisfactory.Originally with literal reference to office work; now chiefly in extended use, esp. in sporting contexts. ΚΠ 1896 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 12 Dec. 3/1 A Bad Day at the Office is Followed by a Very Bad Evening at Home. 1942 Joplin (Missouri) News Herald 27 Feb. 12/2 I had a bad day at the office and this sounds like the proper heel to take the brunt of my righteous wrath. 1989 Times 11 Dec. 32/7 It was just that occasional bad day at the office that everyone is entitled to, a day for Pears that..included missing five out of seven goal-kicking attempts. 2010 Irish Times 25 Sept. a12/2 The great sportsmen and women occasionally endure a bad day at the office without a scintilla of blame being attached. extracted from badadj.n.²adv. < as lemmas
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