What's with the "terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad" expression I see a lot? It's a reference to something? From googling, it seems to be this [1], but ... why? Why do people reference it?
Usually you reference some work like this because a) the phrase is unusually creative, or b) the work is unusually memorable. Neither is true here.
What's with the "terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad" expression I see a lot? It's a reference to something? From googling, it seems to be this [1], but ... why? Why do people reference it?
Usually you reference some work like this because a) the phrase is unusually creative, or b) the work is unusually memorable. Neither is true here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Ho...