a bum/bad rapespecially American EnglishAmE informalUNFAIR unfair treatment or punishment 不公正的对待[惩罚] Cleveland always gets a bum rap in the press. 克利夫兰总是受到新闻界不公正的对待。
a bum/bad rap• She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a bad rap in the 1990s.• They got me on a bum rap.• Yalta's bad name was in some ways a bum rap.
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