Atrocious Phrases

Phrases

• A bad break
• A bad quarter of an hour
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• Ain't half bad
• As ugly as sin
• Bad Intentions (Nickname of boxer Jermain Taylor)
• Bad Moon (Nickname of American football player Andre Rison)
• Bad Romance (Lady Gaga song)
• Bad apple
• Bad blood
• Bad egg
• Bad for your health
• Bad form
• Bad hair day
• Bad hat
• Bad loser
• Bad lot
• Bad money drives out good
• Bad mouthing
• Bad news
• Bad news travels fast
• Bad paper
• Bad penny
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Bad time
• Bad turn
• Bearer of bad news
• Big Bad John (Nickname of boxer John McDermott)
• Big ugly
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Coyote ugly
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• El Terrible (Nickname of boxer Erik Morales)
• Enfant terrible
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Evil genius
• Evil intent
• Evil twin
• Fall into bad habits
• Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Frightful mess
• From bad to worse
• Get off to a bad start
• Give a dog a bad name
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• God awful
• Gone to the bad
• Good cop, bad cop
• Got it bad
• Grievous bodily harm
• Hard cases make bad law
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad (The Beatles song lyric)
• His Heinous (Nickname of basketball player Bill Laimbeer)
• In a bad way
• In bad faith
• In bad odour
• In bad taste
• In someone's bad books
• Keep bad company
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Make the best of a bad job
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Money is the root of all evil
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• My bad
• No peace for the wicked
• No rest for the wicked
• Not bad
• On bad terms with
• Ooh, you are awful, but I like you (A catchphrase from Dick Emery)
• Pug ugly
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• Seven years' bad luck
• Something wicked this way comes
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• Take the good with the bad
• The Abominable Snowman
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Big Bad (Nickname of William the Bloody (James Marsters))
• The Evil Empire
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Master of the Atrocious Pun (Nickname of Clifton Fadiman)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The Whore of Babylon (a Christian figure of evil and corruption)
• The axis of evil
• The love of money is the root of all evil
• The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable (Oscar Wilde quotation about foxhunting)
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• Touch Of Evil (Charlton Heston / Orson Welles movie)
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf song)
• Ugly duckling
• Ugly is only skin-deep (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Ugly mug
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Wicked stepmother
• You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi song)