bad break

be ill off; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days; go on ill; not prosper., go downhill, go to rack and ruin (destruction) [more], go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.