Meanings
nounmiles of bad road pl (plural only)
- informalpluralplural onlyUsed with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.
At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road.
2010, Eric D. Shaffer, Camouflaged Memories: Vietnam and Beyond, page 741 more example
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.
2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83
Translations
Swedish (se ut som) sju svåra år, (se ut som) hej kom och hjälp mig
- (se ut som) sju svåra årexpression of looking terrible
- (se ut som) hej kom och hjälp migexpression of looking terrible
- (känna sig som) sju svåra årexpression of feeling terrible
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