D minus

We are at D minus three and counting.

They were at D minus eight.

When at school, Charlie hands his homework to the teacher, then he gets a D minus, the lowest grade without failing.

She shows Austin her anger by re-typing the assignment, resulting in him getting a D minus.

Take a D minus.

She decides to give Bart an extra point for demonstrating applied knowledge, pushing his grade up to a D minus, barely passing.

A double D minus.'

He calls this task a "D minus 8"--very hard.

(He got a D minus: the assignment was to write a "7- to 10-page essay, including research, on a prominent American.")

He thought rudely, "I'm going to get a D Minus in her class and there is no use trying to bluff her.

Homer proudly displays Bart's new personal best on the refrigerator, and Bart declares that part of the D minus belongs to God.

It was stated that Akagi got a score of D minus, which barely made him eligible to be Dai-Guard's main pilot.

D Minus 1, army lists for the Allied paratroop and air-landing units active in the European theater during January 1944-August 1944.

The Minister of Defence and General Malan would fly up from Cape Town on D minus one.

FOR now, though, he says the Democrats are "pathetic," a bare "D plus" against the Republicans' "D minus," but "they both flunk."

But as for the science of the movie, I'd give it a D minus or an F. And I'd be concerned if the movie was made to advance a political agenda."

In less formal contexts, the time is usually spelled out, so that "D 3" becomes "D minus three" or "D minus 3".

At 23:16 hours on D minus 1 the first of 48 C-47s operating took off, each aircraft carrying 19 or 21 paratroops and five or six parapacks on underwing racks.

"I'd give their efforts to relieve token booth lines a D minus," said Gene Russianoff, a spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, an advocacy group for New York subway riders.

New York City's water - once lauded for its purity - is getting cloudy, and the American Society of Civil Engineers has given the pipes and other parts of the country's creaky water system a D minus.

"All the loves in the strip are unrequited," Mr. Schulz once said, "all the baseball games are lost, all the test scores are D minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away."

These books supersede D minus 1, D-Day, Bloody Omaha, Villers Bocage, Monty's Meatgrinder and Cobra, the Normandy Breakout, updating all the lists in them and adding new lists.

"If you were to judge this Congress by how it operated, the process by which it operated, and the quality of the legislative product, I would give it a D minus," said Thomas Mann, a longtime student of Congress at the Brookings Institution.

But when reading Sybil's poorly constructed work, he finds the message: "Death was not better than D minus, but definitely better than Life minus D." He is too late, and calls Cynthia only to find that Sybil committed suicide at 8 am that morning.