Nasty Phrases

Phrases

• A bad break
• A bad quarter of an hour
• A dirty business
• Ain't half bad
• An ace caff with a nice museum attached (Victoria & Albert Museum advertising slogan)
• As nice as ninepence
• 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 Nasty (Nickname of basketball player Corliss Williamson)
• Big ugly
• Bitter pill to swallow
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• By fair means or foul
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Charm offensive
• Cheap and nasty
• Coffee Crisp makes a nice light snack (Coffee Crisp advertising slogan)
• Coyote ugly
• Cry foul
• Cutting remark
• 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)
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall into bad habits
• Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Foul language
• Foul up
• 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
• Gross domestic product
• Gross out
• Hard cases make bad law
• Have a nice day
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad (The Beatles song lyric)
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• I don't mean maybe
• In a bad way
• In bad faith
• In bad odour
• In bad taste
• In someone's bad books
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you
• Keep bad company
• Lean and mean
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Lean, mean and hungry
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know

• Make nice
• Make the best of a bad job
• Mean Joe (Nickname of Joe Greene)
• Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
• Mean Streets (Robert De Niro movie)
• Mean and selfish
• Mean business
• Mean spirited
• Meaner than a junkyard dog
• My bad
• Nasty piece of work
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Nasty, brutish and short
• Naughty but nice (National Dairy Council advertising slogan)
• Nice and easy does it
• Nice guys finish last
• Nice one Cyril (A catchphrase from Wonderloaf)
• Nice pair of legs
• Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
• Nice save
• Nice to see you, to see you nice (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Nice try
• Nice weather for ducks
• Nice work if you can get it
• No harm, no foul
• No mean feat
• No more mister nice guy
• No peace for the wicked
• No rest for the wicked
• Not bad
• On bad terms with
• On the offensive
• Ooh, you are awful, but I like you (A catchphrase from Dick Emery)
• Points mean prizes
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Pug ugly
• Revenge porn (the malicious posting of sexual images online to harm the reputation of an ex partner)
• Say what you mean and mean what you say
• 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 what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• Seven years' bad luck
• Something nasty in the woodshed
• Something wicked this way comes
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• Take the good with the bad
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Big Bad (Nickname of William the Bloody (James Marsters))
• The Coward Of Bitter Creek (Nickname of Jason McCord (Chuck Connors))
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• The Golden Mean
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
• The Queen of Nice (Nickname of comedienne Rosie O'Donnell)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The bitter end
• The key to a nice, relaxed evening (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• The short end of the stick
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• There's no taste like Stones (Stones Bitter advertising slogan)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• 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
• Vicious circle
• Vicious spiral
• Video nasty (a violent or horrific video)
• We mean business
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• What you mean we, white man?
• Which was nice (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Wicked stepmother
• Wince inducing
• Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Beach Boys song)
• You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi song)
• You'd be so nice to come home to