Definition

to bode ill (or to not bode well): to not be well received, to look bad, to be a bad sign idiom
It wouldn't bode well for you to come in late when the potential investors are coming to check out the offices. You could get into trouble with management.
to bode well: to be promising, to look good, to be a good sign idiom
  • "Organization of space (for example, in your case, it may bode ill if your bottles of poison are kept on the same shelf as the herbal extracts)."

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