go bad
Frequency: 7.025.6 per million words
Sense: not safe to eat. Indicates food has spoiled.
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Examples (10)
- The milk in the carton has gone bad.
- If you leave the fish out, it will go bad in a few hours.
- We had to throw away the bread because it went bad.
- Can you smell this cheese? I'm afraid it might have gone bad.
- Food tends to go bad much faster in the summer heat.
- The potatoes started to sprout, a clear sign they were going bad.
- After the power cut, everything in the freezer went bad.
- To prevent the fruit from going bad, she made jam.
- How long does it take for opened mayonnaise to go bad?
- I think this yogurt has gone bad; it tastes sour.