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miles of bad road

Noun CEFR C2

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.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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