- the badbad people, things, or events
- You will always have the bad as well as the good in the world.
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps from Old English bǣddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’.
Idioms
See bad in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymy bad
- (especially North American English, informal) used when you are admitting that something is your fault or that you have made a mistake
- I'm sorry—my bad.
- That was my bad.
go to the bad
- (old-fashioned) to begin behaving in an immoral way
- I hate to see you going to the bad.
take the bad with the good
- to accept the bad aspects of something as well as the good ones
to the bad
- (British English) used to say that somebody now has a particular amount less money than they did before
- After the sale they were £300 to the bad.
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