bad apple
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bad bargain
One of his majesty's bad bargains; a worthless soldier, a malingeror. See MALINGEROR.
bad blood
A lasting feeling of hatred or anger between individuals or groups
bad blood
Vindictiveness, ill-feeling; hence, to make bad blood, or to stir up bad blood, to create or renew ill-feeling and a vindictive spirit.
bad books
in someone's disfavor
bad business
An unprofitable or unsuccessful venture
bad company
People who have a negative influence on others
bad egg
A person who is unpleasant or untrustworthy
bad egg
A scoundrel or rascal.
bad egg
A disreputable character; a thoroughly bad fellow. A bad excuse is better than none. An adage that first appeared in Nicolas Udall's Ralph Roister Bolster (1541), the first comedy written for the English stage.
bad for somebody
harmful or unfavorable to someone
bad hair day
a day when everything goes wrong
bad iron
A person considered worthless or useless
bad is the best choice
The least undesirable option is chosen
bad joke
Something unpleasant or of poor quality
bad looker
Someone who is unattractive
bad lot
A term derived from auctioneering slang, and now generally used to describe a man or woman of indifferent morals.
bad money drives out good
Less desirable options displace more desirable ones
bad news
Unwelcome or unpleasant information
bad news bears
a person or thing that consistently brings bad news
bad news travels fast
Unwelcome information spreads quickly
bad old days
A time in the past that was unpleasant or difficult
bad penny
A person who consistently causes trouble or difficulty
bad taste in one's mouth
a lingering feeling of disgust or distaste
bad thing
An undesirable or unfortunate event
bad trip
A disturbing or unpleasant experience
bad trot
a person with unpleasant or annoying behavior
bad word
a swear word or profanity
bad words
Words not always bad of themselves but unpleasant to "ears polite," from their vulgar associations.
badge
A term used for one burned in the hand. He has got his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, and is at liberty. Cant.
badge bunny
A person who collects and displays many badges or certifications
badge of honor
A symbol of pride or achievement
badge-coves
Parish Pensioners. Cant.
badger
To tease, to annoy by "chaffing." Suggestive of drawing a badger.
badgers
A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. Cant.
badminton
Blood,—properly a peculiar kind of claret-cup invented at the Duke of Beaufort’s seat of that name. BADMINTON proper is made of claret, sugar, spice, cucumber peel, and ice, and was sometimes used by the patrons of the Prize Ring as a synonym for blood.
Baedeker Raids
A phrase first used in Britain April 29th, 1942, to describe German air raids which, in reprisal for damage done to Cologne and Lubeck, were deliberately directed on historic monuments (e.g. Bath, Canterbury, Norwich) listed as such in Baede- ker's guide.
baffaty
Calico. Term used in the drapery trade.
bag
He gave them the bag, i.e. left them.
bag
To seize or steal, equivalent to "collar."
Bag o' Nails
Corruption of Bacchanals. A not uncommon inn-sign, The Devil and the Bag o* Nails, represents Pan, with his cloven hoofs and his horns, accompanied by satyrs.
bag of bones
A person who is very thin or frail
bag of mystery
A sausage.
bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. The old BAG OF NAILS at Pimlico; originally the BACCHANALS.
bag of tricks
A set of skills or methods used to achieve something
Baga de Secretis
Records in the Record Office of trials for high treason and other State offences from the reign of Edward IV to the close of the reign of George III.
baggage
Heavy baggage; women and children. Also a familiar epithet for a woman; as, cunning baggage, wanton baggage, &c.
bagman
A commercial traveller. This word is used more in reference to the old style of commercial travellers than to the present.
bags
Trousers.
bags
Trousers. Trousers of an extensive pattern, or exaggerated fashion, have sometimes been termed HOWLING-BAGS, but only when the style has been very "loud." The word is probably an abbreviation of bumbags. "To have the BAGS off," to be of age and one’s own master, to have plenty of money. BAGS OF MYSTERY is another phrase in frequent use, and refers to sausages and saveloys. BAG OF TRICKS, refers to the whole of a means towards a result. "That’s the whole bag of tricks."
bags of mystery
Slang for sausages or saveloys ; the allusion is obvious.
bail on
to leave or abandon something suddenly
bail out
to rescue someone from a difficult situation
bail out on
to abandon or leave someone or something suddenly
bailey bridge
The name given in World War II to a metal bridge made of easily portable sections of amazing strength which could be speedily erected. A major factor in the rapidity of Allied advances, particularly in N.W. Europe, was the employment of these bridges. They were invented by the British engineer, D. C. Bailey.
bailey’s
(Nath.) Etymological English Dictionary, 2 vols. 8vo. 1737.
baily's beads
When the disc of the moon has (in an eclipse) reduced that of the sun to a thin crescent, the crescent assumes the appear- ance somewhat resembling a string of beads. This was first described in detail by Francis Baily in 1836, whence the name of the phenom- enon, the cause of which is the sun shining through the depressions between the lunar mountains.
Bain Marie
The French name for a double saucepan like a glue-pot. The term is sometimes used in English kitchens. It appears earlier (as in Mrs. Glasse's Cookery Book, 1796) under its Latin name, Balneum Manx, hence the "St. Mary's bath" of Ben Jonson's Alchemist, II, in. The name is supposed to be due to the gentleness of this method of heating.
bait and switch
Luring someone with a attractive offer, then substituting something less desirable
bait and tackle
Equipment for fishing
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