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bad medicine

bad medicine noun: any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.

Noun

bad medicine (uncountable)

  1. (figuratively) Any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.
    • Many economists believe that trying to spend your way out of a recession is bad medicine.

bad medicine meaning in Tagalog

bad medicine in Tagalog

any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem
masamang gamot

Questions about bad medicine

What does bad medicine mean?
Bad medicine means any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.
What is bad medicine in Tagalog?
Bad medicine in Tagalog is masamang gamot. See Bad medicine meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is bad medicine?
Bad medicine is a noun.

Words near bad medicine in the dictionary

  1. bad losers
  2. bad lot
  3. bad lots
  4. bad luck
  5. bad manners
  6. bad medicine
  7. Bad Mergentheim
  8. bad mind
  9. bad money
  10. bad money drives out good
  11. bad moneys

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