badly+off
11badly off for — Brit : having a strong need for (something or someone) The team was badly off for young players. • • • Main Entry: ↑badly …
12badly off — at a disadvantage, especially by being poor. → badly …
13badly off — Synonyms and related words: depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill starred, impecunious, in Queer Street, in adverse… …
14badly off — adjective In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty. Syn: poor Ant: well off, rich …
15To be badly off — Off Off ([o^]f; 115), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R. of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [root]194. See {Of}.] In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as: [1913 Webster] 1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off …
16badly off — in a bad state, poor, poverty stricken …
17(be) badly off for something — be badly ˈoff for sth idiom (BrE) to not have enough of sth Main entry: ↑badly offidiom …
18bad or badly off — idi bad or badly off, poor; destitute …
19badly — ► ADVERB (worse, worst) 1) in an unsatisfactory, unacceptable, or incompetent way. 2) severely; seriously. 3) very much. ● badly off Cf. ↑badly off …
20be badly off — be well/better/badly, etc. ˈoff idiom used to say how much money sb has • Families will be better off under the new law (= will have more money). • They are both comfortably off (= have enough money to be able to buy what they want without… …
