词汇 | you want it bad you get it bad |
词源 | you want it bad, you get it bad. Things hurried are usually unsatisfactory, defective. “There is an old saying in the acquisi- tion world: ‘You want it bad, you get it bad,’ said Tom Till in the New York Times (April 24, 2005) on the hurried production of the heralded Acela trains for Amtrak. Mr. Till added: “That’s exactly what happened with Acela.” |
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