miles of bad road

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miles of bad road pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) Used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.
    • 2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83:
      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.
    • 2010, Eric D. Shaffer, Camouflaged Memories: Vietnam and Beyond, page 74:
      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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