be a bad risk

Single women, she said he told her, are a bad risk.

Yes, the odds said he was a bad risk right now.

It had cost him a great deal, these five minutes, and it was a bad risk.

You were a bad risk to start with, but I took a chance on you."

Frankly, soldier, your old man was a bad risk.

These loans are risky, and the people who take them out, are a bad risk.

And, of course, each attempt is a worse risk than the one before: antibodies."

"Given your penchant for hazardous duty, you're a bad risk."

And it would be a bad risk.

Oliver suspects that the Dodger is a bad risk, but he doesn't reject the offer of shelter.

Would-be translators who rely solely on native-speaker status are a bad risk.

"Wouldn't he have been a bad risk?"

The first insurance company pulled out of New York entirely, he said, and the second, after two small accidents, said he was a bad risk.

Your coming here was a risk; your coming with an escort was a worse risk.

"People used to whisper that the 100's were a bad risk," said John R. Valenti, the restaurant owner.

No bank will give him a loan, partly because he is a bad risk, but also because he is so notoriously bad-tempered.

A strong dollar poses a modest risk for the economy, and there's a worse risk: that the Federal Reserve Board and Congress will overreact.

Thereupon, with obstinate pride that exasperated the rest of the company, he poured millions of dollars a year into what any marketer could tell was a bad risk.

That's partly because individual investors' needs are different - a stock that's a reasonable bet for a wealthy person could be a bad risk for someone of modest means.

Rather than try to bluff through, which was a bad risk, she was frank, telling how she secretly wanted to die but didn't quite have the courage to do it.

As you say, she was "too" in love--she had invested too much of herself in an asset that has turned out to be a bad risk and eventually a major loss.

As well as incurring penalties, missed and late payments stay on your credit report for at least three years and give lenders the impression that you could be a bad risk.

Large trees cannot be replanted without great expense (you would need a crane and a crew), and they are a bad risk, because traumatized trunks and damaged root systems may never recover.

If you can't break off with booze, or you've gotten out of the habit of work, or you like being a bad risk, I don't want you and you're not welcome to the soup."

The sub-prime mortgages were always worthless but mixing up good borrowers with dodgy borrowers to refinance borrowing is always going to be a bad risk as collateral is only as good its underlying assets.