go to seed

Definitions

1. 1

   To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds.

   • Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.
2. 2

   To deteriorate

   To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition.

   • But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.
   • But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.
   • […] if this total Taliban takeover and collapse was one of the contingencies that […] President [Joe] Biden had foreseen, then how come this plan […] went to seed so rapidly?

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