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miles of bad road en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.
    • At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road. 2010, Eric D. Shaffer, Camouflaged Memories: Vietnam and Beyond, page 74:
    • But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries. 2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83:

Translations (3)

sv (se ut som) hej kom och hjälp mig (expression of looking terrible) · sv (känna sig som) sju svåra år (expression of feeling terrible) · sv (se ut som) sju svåra år (expression of looking terrible)