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bird of ill omen
noun
a person who brings bad news.
Example Sentences
Alas, it isn’t long before a plainly angry man turns up, played by Larry Fessenden, the perennial bird of ill omen in contemporary American low-budget horror films.
At the afternoon's decline, in a light dim enough for the bird of ill omen, Lindwall bowled a terrific over at Hutton.
Hoot no more, bird of ill omen!
It is perched, like a bird of ill omen, on a rocky ledge, where all might see it in passing over the high-road.
I had now gone so far as the conception of a Raven—the bird of ill omen—monotonously repeating the one word, "Nevermore," at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone, and in length about one hundred lines.
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