Mostly distribute soldiers around one? That sounds bad (6,2)

'sounds bad' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'mostly distribute soldiers around one?' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'distribute' becomes 'deal' (synonyms).
'soldiers around' becomes 'rie' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'one?' becomes 'me' (a setter might use 'one' to humourously mean 'me').
'deal' with its final letter removed is 'dea'.
'dea'+'rie'+'me'='DEARIE ME'

'that' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?