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bad news
noun
an annoying, disturbing, unwelcome thing or person; nuisance; troublemaker.
bad news
noun
slangsomeone or something regarded as undesirable
he's bad news around here
Idioms and Phrases
An unwelcome thing or person, trouble. For example, That fire was bad news; we were underinsured for the damage , or No one wants Mary on the board—she's bad news . This term transfers literal bad news—the report of an unhappy recent event—to an unwanted or undesirable individual or circumstance. [ Slang ; 1920s]
The amount charged for something, as in Waiter, bring our check—I want to see the bad news . [ Slang ; 1920s]
Example Sentences
And if progressive litigants lose with these claims, it is not all bad news.
Could be bad news for the four astronauts who are up there now.
All these calamities are happening simultaneously — so many disasters coming at such speed that the bad news slams into Marty like a psychological avalanche.
As in all good sports stories — all good stories, perhaps — the heroes are underdogs; winners only being really interesting if they were losers first, and there are elements in “Stick” of perhaps the two greatest narrative templates of the 20th century — the most used, anyway — “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Bad News Bears.”
"It was the 31st of October, a Thursday, I knew it was bad news but when you're made redundant with immediate effect there's no time to think about it. We'd all been fighting right to the end so then my adrenalin crashed."
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