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Definition of Go to pot
1. Verb. Become ruined. "His business went to pot when economy soured"
Definition of Go to pot
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To decline or deteriorate. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To come to a bad end. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To Pot
Literary usage of Go to pot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"To go to pot, to die. This expression refers to broken metal placed in the
melting-pot. Pothouse, ie, Peterhouse, or St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"TO go to pot, verb. phr. (common).—To perish ; to be done for : as by death, ...
Whence go to pot ! = 'Go to the devil' ; ' Go hang yourself: Fr. ..."
3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Tho' ye have lien among the pots." Psalms. "They that appertain to God, they
shall inherit everlasting life; they must go to pot, they must suffer here. ..."
4. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"... TO go to pot, to die ; from the classic custom of putting the ashes of the
dead in an urn ; also, to be ruined or broken up,—often applied to ..."
5. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"Go TO POT ! ie., go and hang yourself, shut up and be quiet. L'Estrange, to PUT
THE POT ON, to overcharge, or exaggerate. A correspondent, however, prefers ..."
6. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Hence, probably, may be explained the old popular phrase, " To go to pot,"
originally " to go to ... Bliss). plot, Defy or court, all's one, they go to pot. ..."
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