See go to pot on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.",
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"text": "They haven't been maintaining it, and the downtown area has really gone to pot over the past 20 years.",
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"ref": "2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25",
"text": "\"Just stating facts. Novel thing in my line.\" The theologian stubbed out her cigarette on what appeared to be an antique ashtray. \"Reynders is way off the beaten path on a good day, and we haven't had one of those in almost a year of days. With the damage done in the fighting—\"\"What fighting?\" Udo interrupted.Corbin sighed. \"This place went to pot separate from the main Site, obviously. And it went fast, with all those guns to kick around. Superstructure took a lot of hits. Only gets worse the deeper you get, and Reynders is in pretty deep.\"",
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"To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate."
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"(figuratively) To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate."
],
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"word": "go to shit"
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"ref": "1837 September 20, William Cullen Bryant, Calhoun’s Diminished Stature",
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"Go to hell. (an angry dismissal)"
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"(archaic) Go to hell. (an angry dismissal)"
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"word": "go to the dogs"
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"word": "go downhill"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "rapistua"
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"_dis1": "39 61",
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "auf dem absteigenden Ast sein"
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"_dis1": "39 61",
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "se duce naibii"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "se duce dracului"
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"roman": "prixoditʹ v upadok",
"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "приходить в упадок"
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"word": "go to pot"
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"etymology_text": "Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.",
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"text": "\"Just stating facts. Novel thing in my line.\" The theologian stubbed out her cigarette on what appeared to be an antique ashtray. \"Reynders is way off the beaten path on a good day, and we haven't had one of those in almost a year of days. With the damage done in the fighting—\"\"What fighting?\" Udo interrupted.Corbin sighed. \"This place went to pot separate from the main Site, obviously. And it went fast, with all those guns to kick around. Superstructure took a lot of hits. Only gets worse the deeper you get, and Reynders is in pretty deep.\"",
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"glosses": [
"To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate."
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"(figuratively) To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate."
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"word": "go to shit"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "rapistua"
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "auf dem absteigenden Ast sein"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "se duce naibii"
},
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "se duce dracului"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "se duce pe apa sâmbetei"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "prixoditʹ v upadok",
"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "приходить в упадок"
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"sense": "grow worse",
"word": "gå åt skogen"
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"word": "go to pot"
}
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