d (    ■# H ^ ft ^ 7 £f :       You’ll save fifty

dollars, which can’t be bad, can it? jfo & ^ ~F 3i 7 tu $$,      , ApE? have got it 'bad (informal,

humorous) to be very much in love     7:

You’re not seeing him again tonight, are you? That’s five times this week—you’ve got it bad!

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7 ! not 'bad (informal) quite good; better than you expected 77r ; it M $4 #J #T:      ‘How are you?’ ‘Not too

bad.’ “ifcfe&W? ” ,      ” <> That wasn’t bad for

a first attempt. % -*   ^ 7 ft 0 too bad

{informat) 1 (ironic) used to say ‘bad luck’ or ‘it’s a shame’ when you do not really mean it ( 7      “11!]®”

“ nJli” , £|5S±#?EI^1#;tfc.) : If sometimes they’re the wrong decisions, too bad.

$J, i$nTJI:A777 = 2 a shame; a pity itfi; of ft: Too bad every day can’t be as good as this. Rj1§4f74i® —3 (old-fashioned) annoying 7A7.

HKl ; 1® A : Really, it was too bad of you to be so late.

» noun the bad [u] bad people, things, or events 7 A; £5® ( ) : You will always have the bad as well as the

good in the world.      iT»T771 ,go to

the 'bad (old-fashioned) to begin behaving in an immoral way fg : I hate to see you going to the bad.

'my bad (NAmE, informal) used when you are admitting that sth is your fault or that you have made a mistake Hf]c£Kjft; $£ft7: I’m sorry —my bad. ^7^, IS ft 7 <, take the ,bad with the 'good to accept the bad aspects of sth as well as the good ones ) to the

' bad (;BrE) used to say that sb now has a particular amount less money than they did before : After the sale they were £300 to the bad.

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■ adv. {NAmE, informal) badly fit; ^ # :        She wanted it

real bad.   t$If#I!Jt: o 0 Are you hurt bad?

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bad and very bad

Instead of saying that something is bad or very bad, try to use more precise and interesting adjectives to describe things.        bad ^ very

bad

■                  an unpleasant/a foul/a disgusting smell ^A7S

■                  appalling/dreadful/severe weather ffjgfiV ~h738

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■                  an unpleasant/a frightening/a traumatic

experience        / RlfflW >

a poor/weak eyesight

■                  a terrible/serious/horrific accident ^A$J /    /

a a wicked/an evil/an immoral person   / MM

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a an awkward/an embarrassing/a difficult situation

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a We were working in difficult/appalling conditions.

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a To refer to your health, you can say ft ift: I feel unwell/sick/terrible.     / 38'h /

)#>SM7o <> I don’t feel (very) well.

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a In conversation, words like terrible, horrible, awful and dreadful can be used in most situations to mean ‘very bad’. f£On#A, terrible, horrible, awful m dreadful

bad •ass /'baedaes/ adj. {NAmE, informal) (of a person A) tough and aggressive ffiSfSNkftl ► bad-ass noun ,bad 'breath noun [u] breath that smells unpleasant P^: Have I got bad breath?      p Ji.n%?

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