bad dream

collocation in English

meaningsofbadanddream

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bad
adjective
uk
/bæd/us
/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk
/driːm/us
/driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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(Definition ofbadanddreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbad dream

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He cast a dark shadow over the country's sense of well-being, abaddreamthat would not go away.
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They also claim the kin they choose, dismissing the recent past, for now, like abaddream.
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Thus, the pattern of mental health effects associated with dream recall is not straightforward, for both good andbaddreamrecall were associated with some, although different, psychological symptoms.
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Chronic long-term disability is like abaddreamwhich never goes away and can only get worse.
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It is like abaddream—housing and more housing.
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But perhaps all this is just abaddream.
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These debates are like abaddreamthat keeps turning up; we do not seem to make an awful lot of progress.
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Although many people want to erase the dome from their memories as abaddream, the structure should not be erased.
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Last year when we discussed these matters it all seemed something of abaddream.
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The exercise of cutting on the scale being rumoured at the moment will seem like abaddreamwhich we ought never to have wished on ourselves.
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For schoolchildren, business users, leisure users and the disabled, every journey is like abaddream, and too many are like a nightmare, and they are getting worse, not better.
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It can be read as abaddreamor a soap opera about the banality of evil.
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Desperately, he tells her it is all abaddream, and she, surprisingly, believes him.
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He woke up only to have abaddream.
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Traditionally, one also fasted upon awakening from an unexpectedbaddreamalthough this tradition is rarely kept nowadays.
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When she contacts him, he assures her that it was just abaddream.
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The book intrudes on our better-regulated world like abaddreamfrom the grandparental past.
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The song is like abaddreambut it's not abaddream, it's not a terrible dream.
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She decides that she has had abaddream.
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If they have abaddream, one of the clods is thrown away.
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