"down the drain" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet, (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain\nBehind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.",
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          "word": "kankkulan kaivoon"
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          "word": "ralo abaixo"
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, the, drain."
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "circle the drain"
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  "word": "down the drain"
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      "word": "kankkulan kaivoon"
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      "word": "ralo abaixo"
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  "word": "down the drain"
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