her name is mud
- idiom
- Informal
:
su nombre es sinónimo de desprestigio
- Everyone knows that her name is mud after that incident.
Examples
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After the scandal, her name is mud in the community.
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After she told the secret, her name is mud at the club.
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Because of the missed deadline, her name is mud among the team.
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If I don't finish this project on time, her name is mud with the boss.
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After she leaked the information, her name is mud at the office.
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Due to his controversial comments, her name is mud in the industry.
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After the scandal broke, her name is mud in the public eye.
Synonyms
6
4.6
A person who has lost respect after doing something shameful
2
9.9
People think badly of someone because they did something wrong
Antonyms
How Disgraced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase pairs 'name' (reputation) with 'mud' (dirt/soiling), so a learner who knows the words can plausibly infer a negative, 'soiled' reputation. However, the expression is a fixed idiom whose conventional meaning ('in disgrace / very bad reputation') is lexicalized and not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partly transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The idiom her name is mud may come from a story in the 1800s about Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated the man who killed President Lincoln and was blamed by many, so his name became like mud — dirty and ruined. That's why her name is mud means 'in disgrace' or 'having a very bad reputation'.