Meaning

2 senses

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic)My fault; mea culpa.

    Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.

    mein Fehler, meine Schuld

    мой кося́кmoj kosják

  2. (colloquial, idiomatic)Sorry

Examples

93 sentences

  1. I'm sorry for my bad behavior.

    Перепрошую за мою погану поведінку.

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  2. I was always my own worst enemy.

    Я завжди був своїм власним найгіршим ворогом.

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  3. My worst nightmare is coming true.

    Справджується мій найгірший кошмар.

    deMein schlimmster Alptraum bewahrheitet sich gerade.

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  4. My bad eye is this one.

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  5. I'm my own worst enemy sometimes.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

Pick-up basketball slang popularized (but not first coined) by Manute Bol, a basketball pl

Pick-up basketball slang popularized (but not first coined) by Manute Bol, a basketball player of Sudanese origin playing with the Golden State Warriors, and subsequently adopted by teammates. Compare semantics with Russian оплошность (oplošnostʹ, “mistake, bad”), from о- (o-) + плох (plox, “bad”).

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Forms

Synonyms

1 synonyms
mea culpa

See also

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