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In a bad way   /ɪn ə bæd weɪ/   Listen
In a bad way

adjective
1.
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.  Synonyms: distressed, hard-pressed, hard put.  "Financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices" , "We were hard put to meet the mortgage payment" , "Found themselves in a bad way financially"






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"In a bad way" Quotes from Famous Books



... seen I was in a bad way, fur at one time or another I had had most of them there signs and warnings, and hadn't heeded 'em, and I had some of 'em yet. I begun to feel kind o' sick, and looking at them organs and diseases didn't help me none, either. The doctor, he lit out on another string of symptoms, and ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... Bazarov, in a slow, drowsy voice; 'I'm in a bad way; I've got the infection, and in a few days ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... what he has said about Louis," she added, "for, to tell the truth, doctor, I was afraid to see him. But he comes again to-morrow, and then I shall be braver. But I fear that my poor boy is in a bad way." ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... old nurse,' he returned, taking some papers out of his breast pocket. "'J. Steerforth, Esquire, debtor, to The Willing Mind"; that's not it. Patience, and we'll find it presently. Old what's-his-name's in a bad way, and it's about ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... Cockerels. At the end of the first week they were found to still appear much the same, but when handled a difference was easily noticed. By the end of the second week a few birds had died and many others were in a bad way. The individual changes of weight ran from 2-1/2 pounds gain to 3/4 pound loss, and many of the lighter birds were of very poor appearance. It is simply a matter of forced feeding being a process that makes trouble with the health of the chicken if all is ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings


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