bad off

They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.

The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.

Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.

Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.