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{
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},
{
"form": "going to the dogs",
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 42, in Far from the Madding Crowd",
"text": "[T]he merry old ways of good life have gone to the dogs—upon my carcase, they have!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 February 3, Evan Thomas, \"Bring Back the Exploding Cigars\" (review of See No Evil by Robert Baer), New York Times (retrieved 17 Feb 2018)",
"text": "\"The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more.\" . . . Baer, who quit the agency four years ago, says he is angry about all this, but he clearly has a good time recounting how the C.I.A. went to the dogs."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To decline or deteriorate shockingly."
],
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],
[
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"deteriorate"
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To decline or deteriorate shockingly."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "go to pot"
},
{
"word": "go downhill"
},
{
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "go to shit"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "anar en orri"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de filistijnen gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de knoppen gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de kloten gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de verdoemenis gaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ränsistyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "rapistua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "aller à vau-l’eau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "vor die Hunde gehen"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "fara í hundana"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "andare a male"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "andare a rotoli"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "gå i hundene"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "gå i hundane"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "se desanar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "èsser emportat coma per un corrent"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "anar al fil de l'aiga"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "schodzić na psy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pojtí pó miru",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "пойти́ по́ миру"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "irse al diablo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "al traste"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndare a remengo"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndar a remengo"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndare in mona"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndar in mona"
}
]
}
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],
"word": "go to the dogs"
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{
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},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
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"English multiword terms",
"English predicates",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
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"ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 42, in Far from the Madding Crowd",
"text": "[T]he merry old ways of good life have gone to the dogs—upon my carcase, they have!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 February 3, Evan Thomas, \"Bring Back the Exploding Cigars\" (review of See No Evil by Robert Baer), New York Times (retrieved 17 Feb 2018)",
"text": "\"The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more.\" . . . Baer, who quit the agency four years ago, says he is angry about all this, but he clearly has a good time recounting how the C.I.A. went to the dogs."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To decline or deteriorate shockingly."
],
"links": [
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"deteriorate",
"deteriorate"
],
[
"shockingly",
"shockingly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To decline or deteriorate shockingly."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "go to pot"
},
{
"word": "go downhill"
},
{
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "go to shit"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "anar en orri"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de filistijnen gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de knoppen gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de kloten gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "naar de verdoemenis gaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ränsistyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "rapistua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "aller à vau-l’eau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "vor die Hunde gehen"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "fara í hundana"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "andare a male"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "andare a rotoli"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "gå i hundene"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "gå i hundane"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "se desanar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "èsser emportat coma per un corrent"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "anar al fil de l'aiga"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "schodzić na psy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pojtí pó miru",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "пойти́ по́ миру"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "irse al diablo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "al traste"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndare a remengo"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndar a remengo"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndare in mona"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to decline or deteriorate",
"word": "ndar in mona"
}
],
"word": "go to the dogs"
}
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