badly-off

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email

Also, badly off. In unfortunate circumstances, poor. For example, Her husband's death left her bad off, or She had her pension and wasn't too badly off. The first term is colloquial. [Early 1800s] Also see well off.

Translations:

Badly-off

Top

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - ilde faren, dårligt stillet

Français (French)
adj. - nécessiteux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - arm, schlecht dran

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σε άσχημη οικονομική κατάσταση, φτωχός, σε δυσχερή θέση

Italiano (Italian)
povero

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - em má situação

Русский (Russian)
бедный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - pobre, indigente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - dåligt ställt, fattig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
生活困难的, 穷困的, 缺少的, 景况不好的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 生活困難的, 窮困的, 缺少的, 景況不好的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 생계가 궁색한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 貧乏で, 不幸で, 結論のでない

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮דל, עני‬


Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights:

Mentioned in

Babylon Fall (2002 Album by Natty Remo)
The Very Best of... Slade [2 CD] (2005 Album by Slade)
Police Academy Series, Vol. 6 (1988 Children's/Family Film)
come off (Idiom)