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bad name
Idioms and Phrases
see give a bad name .Example Sentences
No, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name.
“To say the there's a split in the Republican Party is to give the banana split a bad name,” said Winter.
He invoked a New York to come like the New York that once was, before chaos and crime gave liberalism a bad name.
These administrators and officials actually are giving pimping a bad name.
The only action in town has been a public blame game that gives sandbox politics a bad name.
The fact was that Carrickfergus had such a bad name in England that everyone who possibly could avoided service there.
My poor village, it seems, has a bad name for thieves; and they have sent a party here to guard it.
It looked for a while as though the bank clerk was determined to have me arrested for calling him a bad name.
Head of the commission was the notorious Cranfield, who had made himself a bad name by his tyrannical government of New Hampshire.
That sort of thing is embarrassing, and it gives skrenning a bad name.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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