badly off (comparative worse off, superlative worst off)

1. In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.

• poor

• well off
• rich

• German: schlecht dran