bad off 的定义
- Also, badly off. In unfortunate circumstances, poor. For example, Her husband's death left her bad off, or She had her pension and wasn't too badly off. The first term is colloquial. [Early 1800s] Also see well off.
bad off 近义词
down and out
更多bad off例句
- We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
- Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
- I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
- Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
- They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.
- A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
- The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
- The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
- Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
- Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.