Meaning of miles of bad road | Babel Free

Definitions

Used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.

informal, plural, plural-only

Examples

“But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.”

“At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road.”

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