Definition
Said of someone or something that will bring disaster or bad fortune to one.
Origins
Presumably a reference to the 1976 sports comedy film The Bad News Bears.
In Context
- "When the actors admitted to not having seen the movie and even predicted it wouldn't be critically well-received, we knew it was going to be bad. And then we knew it was really bad news bears when its own director tweeted this."
- "I could tell by looking at him that he was bad news bears, so I avoided him for the rest of the school year."