Dismal Phrases

Phrases

• A bad break
• A bad quarter of an hour
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• Ain't half bad
• All cats are grey in the dark
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• As dark as pitch
• As miserable 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)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Dark before the dawn
• Dark continent
• Dark horse
• Dark humour
• Dark monday
• Dark tourism
• Dark triad (A group of three negative personality traits)
• Deep dark secret
• Did you get dressed in the dark?
• 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)
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fall into bad habits
• 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
• Gone to the bad
• Good cop, bad cop
• Got it bad
• Hard cases make bad law
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad (The Beatles song lyric)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• In a bad way
• In bad faith
• In bad odour
• In bad taste
• In someone's bad books
• In the dark
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• It was a dark and stormy night
• Keep bad company
• Keep it dark
• Kept in the dark
• Leap in the dark
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Make the best of a bad job
• Miserable specimen
• My bad
• Not bad
• On bad terms with
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Pitch dark
• 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
• Seven years' bad luck
• Shot in the dark
• Stab in the dark
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take the good with the bad
• Tall dark and handsome
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Big Bad (Nickname of William the Bloody (James Marsters))
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf song)
• Whistling in the dark
• You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi song)