Meaning of bad news bears | Babel Free

Definitions

Said of someone or something that will bring disaster or bad fortune to one.

US, capitalized, idiomatic, sometimes

Examples

“When the actors admitted to not having seen the movie and even predicted it wouldn't be critically well-received, we knew it was going to be bad. And then we knew it was really bad news bears when its own director tweeted this.”

“I could tell by looking at him that he was bad news bears, so I avoided him for the rest of the school year.”

CEFR level