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go to the dogs

verb

1 go to the dogs

Become ruined.

synonym: go to pot.

Roget 804: be poor etc. adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny ... show more

Roget 735: be ill off etc. adj.; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days; go on ill; not prosper etc. 734.    go downhill, go to rack and ruin etc. (destruction) ... show more

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

Roget 732: fail; be unsuccessful etc. adj.; not succeed etc. 731; make vain efforts etc. n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: be ruined, become insolvent, break, bust, collapse, come down, crash, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fail, fold, fold up, go bankrupt, go broke, go downhill, go into receivership, go to glory, go to hell, go to perdition ... show more.

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