English Dictionary

break bad

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹeɪk bæd/

動詞

口語 出来事・境遇 米国中西部英語 南部アメリカ英語 特に 人物

(colloquial, of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill. / (colloquial, especially Southern US and Midwestern US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

日本語の意味

物事がうまくいかなくなる、悪化する / 不道徳な行動や犯罪へ走る

The negotiations began to break bad when the other side walked out.

相手が席を立ったとき、交渉はうまくいかなくなり始めた。

意味（1）

(colloquial, of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill.

"A woman came out from the East—Vermont, it was—and school-teaching was her line of business, only she hadn't been raised to it, and this was her first clatter at the game; but things had broke bad for her people, and ended in her pulling stakes and coming West all alone.

意味（2）

(colloquial, especially Southern US and Midwestern US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

But somehow he broke bad when he was just a yearling boy, started running around at night with a bad crowd, drinking beer and wine, and fighting and getting in all kinds of trouble and wouldn't go to school.

breaks bad （ present singular third-person ）

breaking bad （ participle present ）

broke bad （ past ）

broken bad （ participle past ）