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

What’s so great about fabric pumpkins is that they last year round without ever going bad — and they can be reused for many Halloweens to come.

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“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.”

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“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.

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

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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.

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