go down the drain in English

Audio: en-au-go down the drain.ogg

Forms: goes down the drain [present, singular, third-person], going down the drain [participle, present], went down the drain [past], gone down the drain [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> down the drain}} go down the drain (third-person singular simple present goes down the drain, present participle going down the drain, simple past went down the drain, past participle gone down the drain)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> down the drain"
      },
      "expansion": "go down the drain (third-person singular simple present goes down the drain, present participle going down the drain, simple past went down the drain, past participle gone down the drain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_down_the_drain-en-verb--eNKYt7K",
      "links": [
        [
          "go down the toilet",
          "go down the toilet#English"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic, idiomatic) Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to fail",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "go down the toilet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go down the drain.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go down the drain"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone down the drain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> down the drain"
      },
      "expansion": "go down the drain (third-person singular simple present goes down the drain, present participle going down the drain, simple past went down the drain, past participle gone down the drain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go down the toilet",
          "go down the toilet#English"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic, idiomatic) Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to fail",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "go down the toilet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go down the drain.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-au-go_down_the_drain.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go down the drain"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"go down the drain" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms