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Also, not half bad ; not so or too bad ; not too shabby . Fairly good, as in Not bad, said the conductor, but we need to play the scherzo again , or The movie wasn't half bad, but Jerry wanted to go home , or Our garden's not too bad this year , or How are things going?—Not too shabby . All of the terms involving bad , which imply that something is less bad than it might be, date from the mid-1700s. The last variant, using shabby in the sense of “inferior,” is slang of the late 1900s.

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So I accepted and we kept it going,” said Junior H. “Especially with men, I think it’s important to show people that feelings are not bad and we can express them as we want.”

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"But the joke was about fluoride. I have big, gap teeth, not bad teeth."

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She continued: “But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth. I don’t mind caricature — I understand that’s what ‘SNL’ is.

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"I have big gap teeth not bad teeth."

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Tatyana Krivitsky defended the track record of the congregate facilities, saying their history of violations was “not bad at all” given their patient population.

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