miles of bad road

English

Noun

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.

Translations

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")