bad omen

Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

bad omen

A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future. It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams. All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hatshepsut	haht-SHEP-soot (English)	Ancient Egyptian
OcÉAne	o-se-AHN	French
Mari (1)	MAH-ree (Finnish), mah-REE (Swedish)	Welsh, Breton, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Eluned	el-IN-ed, el-EEN-ed	Welsh
Bacchus	['bækəs]
Faina	fah-EE-nah	Russian