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bad a bad excuse is better than none it is better to attempt to give some kind of explanation, even a weak one; proverbial saying recorded from the mid 16th century.
bad hair day a day on which everything seems to go wrong, characterized as a day on which one's hair is particularly unmanageable; an expression which became current in the 1990s.
bad money drives out good money of lower intrinsic value tends to circulate more freely than money of higher intrinsic and equal nominal value, through what is recognized as money of higher value being hoarded. It is known as Gresham's law after Sir Thomas Gresham (c.1519–79), founder of the Royal Exchange. Gresham saw the economic need to restore the purity of the coinage, though there is no evidence that he actually used this expression. The saying in this form is recorded from the early 20th century.
bad news travels fast bad news is more likely to be talked about than good news. This saying is recorded from the late 16th century; a mid 16th-century translation of Erasmus's Adages has the related ‘Sad and heavy tidings be easily blown abroad be they never so vain and false and they be also soon believed.’
a bad penny always turns up the return of an unwanted or disreputable person is inevitable; proverbial saying from the mid 18th century.
bad things come in threes the belief that an accident or misfortune is likely to be accompanied by two more is a well-attested traditional belief, although in this form it is only recorded from the late 20th century.
a bad workman blames his tools often used as a comment on someone's excuses for their lack of success. Proverbial saying recorded from the early 17th century in English, and the late 13th century in French.
there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes modern saying, recorded from the late 20th century, which attributes suffering from the prevailing temperature or other weather conditions to a person's lack of preparedness and good sense.