"go horribly right" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: goes horribly right [present, singular, third-person], going horribly right [participle, present], went horribly right [past], gone horribly right [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> horribly right}} go horribly right (third-person singular simple present goes horribly right, present participle going horribly right, simple past went horribly right, past participle gone horribly right)
  1. (idiomatic) To produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-go_horribly_right-en-verb-a4Z-SEto Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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