go down badly
Frequency: 6.07.5 per million words
to be received in a negative way by an audience or group
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Examples (10)
- The joke went down badly with the audience.
- The price hike goes down badly with customers.
- His blunt remark went down badly with the team at yesterday’s meeting.
- The CEO’s apology has gone down badly with shareholders.
- The new policy is going down badly with frontline staff.
- Framing the delay as “minor” will go down badly with clients.
- Why did the announcement go down so badly with the press?
- If you blame the volunteers, it will go down badly with the community.
- His attempt at humor went down badly with the crowd.
- Tax increases generally go down badly with voters.