give a bad name
verbDefinitions
To cause people to lose respect, reverence or esteem for something or someone.
- The Spanish Inquisition gave all other government inquisitions a bad name, as far as common usage is concerned.
- Shot through the heart and you're to blame / Darling, you give love a bad name
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA