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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BAD PLACE, n. Hell.m.Sc. 1992 Iain Banks The Crow Road (1993) 25:
'But dad, Mrs McBeath says there is so a God, so you'll go to the bad place.' 'Mrs McBeath is an idiot.'.Per. 1903 H. MacGregor Souter's Lamp 86:
Deil's Bairn, yer grannie's in the bad place noo.Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
Bad place, the, hell.
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