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bad off
adjective
In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
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"We used to call Bangladesh bad off," Miller said.
How bad off would the studios really be?
"We're not that bad off, goddamnit!" The impoverishment is psychological, the crime pathological carelessness.
But I do wonder whether Singer is jotting down my specs in his little note pad as evidence of how "bad off" people like me really are.
Query No. 1: Just how bad off is the show now that every scribe with a jibe has taken a swing at the thing?
But he is the sort of artist who can seem that way because he remains, for good and for bad, off on his own weird tangent.
But after watching a young boy in a nearby hospital bed die of leukemia, he decided that he himself was not so bad off, yet.
He never mentioned that my mother didn't seem that bad off; in fact, I convinced myself that he was grateful for the excuse to come home.
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League officials and sports industry experts noted that the N.F.L. had had its share of bad off-season stories before.
Not a bad off-season job for the "Man With the Bag".
There is no money in buying and running another brand — synergy rarely works and all of the bad management and costs associated with a company bad-off enough to want to be acquired will now be Apple's problem.
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