It's setting a lousy precedent that we'll all pay for later.
David Cameron, PR man-turned-prime minister, found a way of giving a promising set of ideas a lousy name.
It's a great movie, but it's a lousy set of values: coincidentally they fell in love, but before that they were just out to snag an unsuspecting millionaire.
They [the physicians] don't understand that we don't take a lousy certificate.
Don't accept a lousy table.
(Dargis) 'Five Star Day' (No rating, 1 37) Jake (Cam Gigandet) is a mumbling fellow who has a lousy birthday and sets out in search of three other people born on the same day and in the same hospital to see if they had lousy days too.
The basic idea for this stuff is Adam Smith, the guy with the Invisible Hand (he was a lousy third baseman) setting market prices everywhere.
"Because if you wake up and think, Wow, what a terrible night of sleep, I'm going to have a lousy day, you're setting yourself up for failure".
"It's a lousy thing to do".
"For years, he had set me up with lousy dates," Mr. Slater recalled.
