go to pot meaning
MeaningMobile
- Verb: go to pot
- Become ruined
"His business went to pot when economy soured"
- go to the dogs
Derived forms: going to pot, goes to pot, went to pot, gone to pot
Type of: deteriorate
- Become ruined
[American idiom]
to go to ruin; to deteriorate. (Informal.)
• My whole life seems to be going to pot.
• My lawn is going to pot. I had better weed it.
• The government is going to the dogs.
[American slang]
Fig. to go to ruin; to deteriorate.
My whole life seems to be going to pot.
My lawn is going to pot. I had better weed it.
[British slang]
Phrs. To deteriorate.
Examples
- He's let himself go to pot since she left him
- Doug : so what ? ! everything's gonna go to pot . i guarantee
- Let them all go to pot
- We decided to make the trip and let the garden go to pot.
- We were so pleased because the previous owners let the place go to pot,
- In the 19th century things go to pot,
- He let the air force go to pot.
- If I get too focused on outcome, on results, I go to pot.
- Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it,
- Baseball is wounded because its policemen have let the rules go to pot ( belly ).
Other Languages
- "go to pot" meaning in Chinese: 毁灭
- "go to pot" meaning in Japanese: 荒廃{こうはい}する、堕落{だらく}するAlba went (all) to pot after Jake foun...
- "go to pot" meaning in Russian: 1) вылететь в трубу, разориться, погибнуть 2) разрушиться
- "go to pot" meaning in French: ravager, se détériorer
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