bad news bears

English

Presumably a reference to the 1976 sports comedy film The Bad News Bears.

(idiomatic, US, sometimes capitalized) Said of someone or something that will bring disaster or bad fortune to one.
- 2015 August 14, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, “This On-Set Fight Between Miles Teller and Josh Trank Is Probably More Exciting Than 'Fantastic Four'”, in Complex, retrieved 25 Nov. 2015:
  When the actors admitted to not having seen the movie and even predicted it wouldn't be critically well-received, we knew it was going to be bad. And then we knew it was really bad news bears when its own director tweeted this.
I could tell by looking at him that he was bad news bears, so I avoided him for the rest of the school year.