Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

so far so bad

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.17 in modern English

Syllables: so -far -so bad
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

proverb

Up to this point, everything has gone badly.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"Still farther to darken the prospects of the North, there is the financial pressure,-extreme alarming, and continually growing more burdensome and severe. So far, so bad; but there are important items to be taken into account on the other side."

Etymology

Modeled after so far so good.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

so far, so bad (alternative)

Questions

What does so far so bad mean?: Up to this point, everything has gone badly.
Where does so far so bad come from?: Modeled after so far so good.

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