Talk:breaking bad

Baseball origins?
See |breaks|breaking|broke|broken+bad%22+-%22bad+news%22+-%22bad+habits%22+-%22bad+health%22+-%22bad+laws%22&hl=en&ei=fTxKTvmcIMPf0QHPl7XrBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=15&ved=0CHQQ6AEwDjge#v=onepage&q=%22break|breaks|breaking|broke|broken%20bad%22%20-%22bad%20news%22%20-%22bad%20habits%22%20-%22bad%20health%22%20-%22bad%20laws%22&f=false this. DCDuring TALK 09:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August 2011–March 2012
Hits on Google book search seem to be either for a US TV series, or for "breaking bad news" or "breaking bad habits". SemperBlotto 09:12, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Searching before 2005, excluding some common collocations like "bad news", "bad habit/s", and sifting through a lot of irrelevant hits led to enough citations. break: seems to mean "become" or "turn" (possibly more suddenly or with echos of the breaking of a horse, or of lucky breaks), so this is arguably NISoP. DCDuring TALK 11:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Inclusion criteria I admit that I'm pretty ignorant about Wiktionary (I'm from en.wp), but several citations have been provided to show that this colloqualism has existed for over a century. I'm not terribly familiar with NISOPs, but I can say that if I simply heard someone saying something about "breaking bad" prior to the show and the explanation that I read of its etymology, I would not have pieced together its meaning. koavf 08:27, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * See also Here. koavf 06:40, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Apparently resolved. Struck. - -sche (discuss) 22:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

RFC discussion: August 2011
If this dos exist, I imagine it's a verb to break bad. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like a valid US regional colloquialism. I'll try to cite it. It looks like a clear candidate. DCDuring TALK  09:55, 16 August 2011 (UTC)