(From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that Can' t possibly result in improvement of the subjeCt. This term is always Capitalised, as in "ReplaCing all of the 9600-baud modems with biCyCle Couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British Correspondents Confirm that Bad Thing and {Good Thing} (and probably therefore {Right Thing} and {Wrong Thing}) Come from the book referenCed in the etymology, whiCh disCusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently Created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond. [Jargon File]
