Meaning You are discredited or in disgrace. The very mention of your name produces scorn.
Usage Worldwide.
Example
- Since the hundreds of reports of his abuse of children, Jimmy Saville's name is mud in the UK.
Pronunciation
Idiom
Your name is mud
What does "Your name is mud" mean?
You are discredited or in disgrace. The very mention of your name produces scorn.
Your name is mud
USA. The allusion is to Dr. Samuel Mudd, the man who was accused of the shooting of President Abraham Lincoln