go to the dogs

[go to the dogs] {v. phr.}, {informal} To go to ruin; to be ruined or destroyed.

* /The man went to the dogs after he started drinking./

* /After the death of the owner, the business went to the dogs./

* /The team went to the dogs when its best players got hurt./

Compare: GO TO POT.

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	business ⁷⁷ death ⁷⁰ hurt ⁵¹ {informal} ¹⁴⁰¹ {v. phr.} ²¹⁸³

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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