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Go bad   /goʊ bæd/   Listen
Go bad

verb
1.
Stop operating or functioning.  Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go.  "The car died on the road" , "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town" , "The coffee maker broke" , "The engine failed on the way to town" , "Her eyesight went after the accident"
2.
Become unfit for consumption or use.  Synonym: spoil.






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"Go bad" Quotes from Famous Books



... By gar, he's feel too good! He's fall in crik. Dat's noting. No! Good fire, plenty blanket make dat all right. But dat night I hear de ole boss groan, and cry, and turn overe and overe. Light de fire; give him one big drink wheesky. No good. He's go bad all dat night. Nex' day he's het noting. Nex' day he's worser and worser. Wat I can do I can't tell. Den de Bon Dieu he send along dat half-breed. De ole boss he write letter, an' you come ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... to miscarry, and so forth.[244] Similarly, in various parts of Europe, it is still believed that if a woman in her courses enters a brewery the beer will turn sour; if she touches beer, wine, vinegar, or milk, it will go bad; if she makes jam, it will not keep; if she mounts a mare, it will miscarry; if she touches buds, they will wither; if she climbs a cherry tree, it will die.[245] In Brunswick people think that if a menstruous woman assists at the killing of a pig, the pork will putrefy.[246] ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer



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