big and bad
(informal, slang, somewhat, derogatory) Highly showy or impressive.
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I still didn’t recover from that episode. I love Blitz but it was too big and bad of a reaction for me to brush it off😭
If he is alive in 2027, I will be amazed. Something big and bad is coming for him. Just look at him, he is a dumpster fire. One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
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(informal, slang, somewhat, derogatory) Highly showy or impressive.
“I still didn’t recover from that episode. I love Blitz but it was too big and bad of a reaction for me to brush it off😭”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If he is alive in 2027, I will be amazed. Something big and bad is coming for him. Just look at him, he is a dumpster fire. One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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