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Definition of Go to the dogs
1. Verb. Become ruined. "His business went to pot when economy soured"
Definition of Go to the dogs
1. Verb. (idiomatic informal) To decline or deteriorate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To The Dogs
Literary usage of Go to the dogs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... for it is simply a slight anticipation of the usual course of things, and
instead of waiting for the suitors to go to the dogs, the dogs, in this case, ..."
2. The World of Proverb and Parable: With Illustrations from History, Biography by Edwin Paxton Hood (1885)
"The dog is your true human animal; we ought to "go to the dogs," for assuredly
they are very fond of us, and love us far better than we deserve to be loved. ..."
3. History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution by W. Scott Morgan (1891)
"The other fellows do it, and we must get there this time or the country will go
to the dogs." Great questions can never be settled by men calling each other ..."
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