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Bad blood
Unfriendliness or enmity between two people or families
Bad language
Swear words or taboo words
A bad lot
A person with bad personal qualities, someone who is dishonest
Bad news
A person, often with criminal tendencies, who brings trouble to others
Bad news travels fasting
(Saying) bad news is spread more quickly than good news
A bad patch
A period of difficulty or unhappiness; problems
A bad workman always blames his tools
(Saying) an unskilled, inefficient person puts the blame for his mistakes on the materials, tools, machines
Be in someone’s bad books
Be out of favour with someon
Come to a bad end
Become a criminal, have to go to prison, suffer, disgrace. Said of someone who leads a wild life and perhaps has criminal tendencies
Give someone/ have a bad/ hard time
Treat someone badly or unfairly, make someone suffer/ be treated badly or unfairly, suffer
Give someone up as a bad job
Go from bad to worse
In a bad way
In a poor condition/ state of mental or physical health
(It’s/that’s) too bad
It’s a pity/ unfortunate
Make the best of a bad job
Do the best one can in a difficult or unfortunate position, regard a problem optimistically
Not (so/too) bad
Relatively good,satisfactory
Be/ get into hit the ‘big time
Be making a lot of money in business,often in the entertainment business; become famous
A/ the big cheese
The most important person of a group; someone who thinks he is most important
Big deal!
Terrific!great!
Said when one is not impressed/ pleased
A big fish in a little/small pond
Someone who is important only in a small unit, group, community, company
A big hit
Something/ someone very popular with others
Big league
Something to be taken seriously because it’s important, dangerous, involves a lot of money
A big mouth
Someone who boasts, exaggerates, makes promises he doesn’t keep
A big noise/ shot
An important person with influence ( implies arrogance, self importance)
Big of someone
Generous or kind of someone
Often said ironically because one thinks it is the opposite
Big talk/words
Boastful,empty talk
In a big way
On a large scale
