The phrase "a bad phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phrase that is inappropriate, poorly constructed, or not effective in communication.
Example: "While the intention was good, the expression turned out to be a bad phrase that confused the audience."
Alternatives: "an ineffective expression" or "a poor choice of words".
It is a bad phrase at IBM".
That's not a bad phrase, junior partners in absolutism.
"Ethnic-cleansing is a bad phrase, it's not appropriate.
Osborne says he has always thought that was a bad phrase.
McCarthy can be incredibly astute psychologically, the long lists are astounding in their precision, there is hardly a bad phrase and many of the images are wonderful.
There is a virtual industry, at the moment, in people mining the pasts of the newly prominent to find an ill-advised tweet from 2007, a Facebook update where they used a "bad" phrase or an early standup skit where they appeared to say something bad about, say, Mexicans – unless you watch to the end of the clip and realise they're doing it in the guise of a dumb character.
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All right, six might be a bit of an exaggeration, but the mistakes are relatively infrequent — ensuring that a few bad phrases have gotten more than their share of attention from dedicated viewers.
And of course there was always the other side, the fact that our friendship really wasn't a courting, was really disinterested (Bad phrase) really led to no encroachments.
In 1943, she compliments a college student on his style, but the words "the world beautiful" elicit a rebuke: "That is the only bad phrase in your letter.
And you seem to shrug off certain phrasing that casts one candidate (usually Mrs. Clinton) in a bad light: phrases like "just as often she raises her voice to a shout that can sound grating" and "among other things, she has also been accused of having a grating voice and bad taste in clothes".
