"go down the pan" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go down the pan.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes down the pan [present, singular, third-person], going down the pan [participle, present], went down the pan [past], gone down the pan [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> down the pan}} go down the pan (third-person singular simple present goes down the pan, present participle going down the pan, simple past went down the pan, past participle gone down the pan)
  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic, British) Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly. Tags: British, euphemistic, idiomatic Synonyms: go down the toilet [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-go_down_the_pan-en-verb-wmRCfyet Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for go down the pan meaning in English (1.9kB)

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