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go to pot

verb

Etymology

Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.

Definitions

  1. To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate.

    • They haven't been maintaining it, and the downtown area has really gone to pot over the past 20 years.
    • Iacke Straw. […] I haue his wife and children pledges, for his ſpeedie returne from the King, to whom he is gone with our meſſage. Tom Miller. Let him take heede hee bring a wiſe anſwere to our worships, or els his pledges goes to the pot.

  2. Go to hell

    Go to hell; an angry dismissal.

    • At this moment the rabbit sprang from his arms and disappeared among the brush wood. "Go to pot," said the man, "you are a good-for-nothing dry-meated beast, to make the best of you."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA