be bad news

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be likely to cause problems

   Is it bad news? Think it'll be bad news?

In the movies · 13

• All right? Now, rock concerts are bad news.Dinner in America2020
• Good news for them, bad news for me.Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• Good news for ice cubes, bad news for polar bears.Wrath of Man2021
• Is it bad news? Think it'll be bad news?The Place Beyond the Pines2013
• The bad news is...The Hangover2009
• That is bad news.Love Actually2003
• I'm bad news.The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023
• That's the bad news.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton
• Wrath of Man2021
  • H's Fortico Interview and Training
  • H Meets the Fortico Crew
  • H's First Day on the Cash Truck

From the same entry

• break the news
• be good news
• no news is good news
• break new ground
• good as new
• … is the new
• a new broom
• a new kid on the block
• a new one on me
• turn over a new leaf
• what's new
• new blood

More idioms

• for the love of god
• out of order
• round here
• nothing like
• have a roof over your head
• nothing much
• the last i heard
• keep clear
• what is more
• no matter
• do the job
• in writing