VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Go to the Dogs

Meaning:

To become disordered, to decay

Examples:

  • Please, let us not allow the situation to go to the dogs.
  • They sit in impotent opposition while the country goes to the dogs.
  • Could our dogs come back to us, or were we going to the dogs?
  • Have you seen their car lately? It’s really gone to the dogs.
  • I'll take the holy vow to be worthless, to be drunken and go to the dogs.
  • Many things in our home have gone to the dogs during the last 3 months.
  • I'll take the holy vow to be worthless, to be drunken and go to the dogs.
  • She was a very successful actress, but her drinking habit and illegal affairs caused her career to go to the dogs.
  • For I know'tis the height of wisdom to be drunken and go to the dogs.
  • It seems that the reputation of your business has gone to the dogs.
  • Then I will follow you, comrade, and be drunken and go to the dogs.