my bad
Meaning: My mistake; sorry.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “"You sent me the wrong file." "My bad, here's the right one."”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: American slang from the late 20th century, often linked to pickup basketball. It spread widely in the 1990s.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Au temps pour moi — literally: As you were, for me
More idioms — Daily Life
- drive someone up the wall — To annoy someone intensely.
- right up one's alley — Exactly suited to someone's interests or skills.
- have the luck of the devil — To be extraordinarily lucky.
- take a hike — Go away; get lost.
- nobody's fool — A sensible person who is not easily tricked.
- swing the lead — To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill.
More English idioms
- freeze one's butt off — To be extremely cold.
- be in clover — To live in comfort and luxury.
- go downhill — To get steadily worse.
- hightail it — To leave in a great hurry.
- diddly-squat — Nothing at all.
- have a nerve — To be rude or bold in a way that shocks others.
From our untranslatable words
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- Drachenfutter — A peace-offering gift brought home to a partner after staying out too late or doing somet…
- Verschlimmbessern — To make something worse in a well-intentioned attempt to improve it.