bad cold

collocation in English

meaningsofbadandcold

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bad
adjective
uk
/bæd/us
/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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cold
noun
uk
/kəʊld/us
/koʊld/
a common infection, especially in the nose and throat, that causes you to cough and sneeze and your nose to run (= drip liquid) or ...
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(Definition ofbadandcoldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbad cold

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I want, first, to apologise for having abadcold.
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We have had pollution with abadcoldand the white heat of the technological revolution.
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Unfortunately, he is at present confined to his bed with abadcold.
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He has a ratherbadcoldwhich necessitated a day in bed.
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He has a certificate that he is suffering from abadcold.
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Do not cough unless you have abadcold, my old flower.
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A man who may be healthy gets abadcoldand another cold upon that, and it develops into consumption.
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Who will decide whether the prescription has been made out for abadcoldor for the pensionable disability?
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Every one of us has suffered at some time or another from the flu or abadcoldand cannot pursue our activities.
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The illnesses may or may not include actual flu, and is often simply abadcold, but is so named simply due to alliteration.
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Lum has caught a verybadcold, and the hotel staff send for a doctor, who arrives to their room a while later.
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The next morning, he awoke with abadcold, fever, and a throat infection called quinsy that turned into acute laryngitis and pneumonia.
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Events that can provoke decompensation include abadcoldor the flu, minor surgery, long vacations, or anything that stops normal daily activity for a few days.
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