English Dictionary

break bad

/bɹeɪk bæd/

verb

(colloquial, of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill. / (colloquial, especially Southern US and Midwestern US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

I need to break bad habits.

意味（1）

(colloquial, of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill.

"A woman came out from the East—Vermont, it was—and school-teaching was her line of business, only she hadn't been raised to it, and this was her first clatter at the game; but things had broke bad for her people, and ended in her pulling stakes and coming West all alone.

意味（2）

(colloquial, especially Southern US and Midwestern US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

But somehow he broke bad when he was just a yearling boy, started running around at night with a bad crowd, drinking beer and wine, and fighting and getting in all kinds of trouble and wouldn't go to school.