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Synonyms

go bad

Idioms  

  1. Spoil, decay; also, turn to crime. For example, You can tell from the smell that this milk has gone bad, or If he keeps running around with that street gang, he's sure to go bad. [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

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Banks then also typically get layers of insulation from the underlying loans going bad.

From The Wall Street Journal

A big reason investors are ditching private credit is because they’re scared its loans are about to go bad.

From Barron's

“Whatever asset you’re looking at people are on a knife’s edge regarding leverage and that doesn’t have to go bad; that can go very very well before it goes very, very bad,” he said.

From MarketWatch

Across rebel-held cities and towns, supermarket shelves sit empty while crops wither in inaccessible fields and go bad at rebel checkpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pacific Valley’s profits had dropped double-digits after costs jumped and a business loan went bad.

From The Wall Street Journal

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