in a bad way

[in a bad way] {adv. phr.}, {informal} In trouble or likely to have trouble.

* /If you have only those two girls to help you, you are in a bad way./

* /Jerry has written only one sentence of his term paper that is due tomorrow, and he knows he is in a bad way./

* /Mrs. Jones has cancer and is in a bad way./

* /A new supermarket opened across the street, and the Peters' grocery business was soon in a bad way./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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