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  2. www.phrases.org.uk › meanings › the-pitsThe Pits - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase - Phrasefinder

    ‘The pits’, with its suggestion of bad odour, was synonymous with ‘the armpits’. The first example that I can find of ‘the pits’ being used as slang with that meaning is from Newsweek, November 1953: A bad exam experience would be ‘I’m wasted’ at Howard… ‘It was the pits’ at Vassar.

  3. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › it's+the+pitsIt's the pits - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

    If you describe something as the pits, you mean that it is extremely bad. Mary Ann asked him how dinner had been. `The pits,' he replied. Reading someone else's diary is the pits.

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  5. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishTHE PITS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    Meaning of. the pits. in English. the pits. idiom. Add to word list. Add to word list. infml a very bad or unpleasant thing: When I first came to the college, this place was the pits, but it's improved a lot.

  6. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › the+pitsThe pits - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

    If you describe something as the pits, you mean that it is extremely bad. Mary Ann asked him how dinner had been. `The pits,' he replied. Reading someone else's diary is the pits.

  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTHE PITS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    Those rooms are too small for you, and as for those narrow and badly decorated stairs, they are the pits.

  8. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › that's+the+pitsThat's the pits - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

    If you describe something as the pits, you mean that it is extremely bad. Mary Ann asked him how dinner had been. `The pits,' he replied. Reading someone else's diary is the pits.

  9. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › the pitsThe pits Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of THE PITS is something that is very bad or unpleasant. How to use the pits in a sentence.