go to the dogs
if a country or an organization is going to the dogs, it is becoming less successful
than it was in the past (usually in continuous tenses)
They sat in the bar the night before the election, moaning that the country was going to the dogs.
See call off the dogs, throw to the dogs
See also: dog
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.
go to the dogs
to become worse in quality or character go to hell (in a handbasket) He was a marvelous actor,
but his drinking problems caused his career to go to the dogs.
It is sad to report that this once first-class hotel has gone to the dogs.
Related vocabulary: go to pot
See also: dog
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.
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