"go Pete Tong" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> Pete Tong"
      },
      "expansion": "go Pete Tong (third-person singular simple present goes Pete Tong, present participle going Pete Tong, simple past went Pete Tong, past participle gone Pete Tong)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players, page 95:",
          "text": "But when Bobby got busted, it all went Pete Tong for him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dan Mills, Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq:",
          "text": "It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile:",
          "text": "Things started going Pete Tong as the superficially attractive two- or three-year fixed mortgage deals ran out, interest rates went up and the housing bubble inevitably burst.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 46:",
          "text": "On leaving the train at Piccadilly, everything goes 'Pete Tong'. Services are in complete disarray, as a tree has come down onto the line at Gatley.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go wrong."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_Pete_Tong-en-verb-qHjbVW~c",
      "links": [
        [
          "Cockney rhyming slang",
          "Cockney rhyming slang"
        ],
        [
          "go wrong",
          "go wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cockney rhyming slang) To go wrong."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004 film)"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cockney",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go Pete Tong"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone Pete Tong",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> Pete Tong"
      },
      "expansion": "go Pete Tong (third-person singular simple present goes Pete Tong, present participle going Pete Tong, simple past went Pete Tong, past participle gone Pete Tong)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004 film)"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players, page 95:",
          "text": "But when Bobby got busted, it all went Pete Tong for him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dan Mills, Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq:",
          "text": "It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile:",
          "text": "Things started going Pete Tong as the superficially attractive two- or three-year fixed mortgage deals ran out, interest rates went up and the housing bubble inevitably burst.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 46:",
          "text": "On leaving the train at Piccadilly, everything goes 'Pete Tong'. Services are in complete disarray, as a tree has come down onto the line at Gatley.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go wrong."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cockney rhyming slang",
          "Cockney rhyming slang"
        ],
        [
          "go wrong",
          "go wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cockney rhyming slang) To go wrong."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cockney",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go Pete Tong"
}