Meaning of mauvais quart d'heure | Babel Free

Definitions

A brief unpleasant period; a bad yet quick experience.

British

Examples

“Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d’heure made up of exquisite moments.”

“It was a mauvais quart d’heure, the Christmas holidays of ’96, and poor Willy Phillips never lived to see the fight recovered.”

“Many Guardian readers will have suffered a mauvais quart d'heure when they found out that their views on the Gulf war were closer to Peter's than Christopher's.”

“Kate Fall, Cameron’s deputy chief of staff, has an initial mauvais quart d’heure when all she is offered is the chance to run Comic Relief […]”

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