give bad marks to

Judge unsatisfactory, as in They gave bad marks to the President's program. This expression transfers the marking used in evaluating schoolwork to other endeavors. [Late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dinesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali
Diane	dee-AHN (French), die-AN (English)	French, English
Ioan	-	Romanian, Welsh, Bulgarian
Hevel	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Dara (2)	-	Khmer
MÅRten	MOR-ten	Swedish