miles of bad road

English

miles of bad road pl (plural only)

(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.

expression of looking terrible

Swedish: (se ut som) sju svåra år (literally, "(look like) seven hard years"), (se ut som) hej kom och hjälp mig (sv) (literally, "(look like) hi come and help me")

expression of feeling terrible

Swedish: (känna sig som) sju svåra år (literally, "(feel like) seven hard years")

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