go bad

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

“During my warm-up throws in the fourth, it felt a little off. Trying to get my foot down a little earlier didn’t really help. That’s been a cue. But yeah, it just went bad.”

From Los Angeles Times

“If they ever tried to come into our church packed with parishioners it will go bad for them because people will not tolerate that,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

When it was going bad, I didn’t really know how to correct it.

From Los Angeles Times

I woke up the next morning, slightly panicked, cataloguing in my head how I would need to freeze and label the meat and seafood so it doesn’t go bad before we use it all.

From Salon

"The outage only lasted a day and now we have so much food, but most of it isn't going to go bad, as it is easily preserved."

From BBC

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