Popeye's girl is going round with chaps – that's a bad sign (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
evil omen
'aeur that's a bad sign' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'popeye's girl is going round with chaps' is the wordplay.
'popeye's girl' becomes 'olive' (I've seen this in another clue).
'is going round' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'chaps' becomes 'men' (chap means a man).
'olive' backwards is 'evilo'.
'evilo'+'men'='EVIL OMEN'
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