go to the dogs
To go to ruin, degenerate

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go to the dogs
if a country or an organization is going to the dogs, it is becoming less successful than it was in the past.
They sat in the bar the night before the election, moaning that the country was going to the dogs.
(usually in continuous tenses)

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go to the dogs
to deteriorate, to become bad
Many things in our city have gone to the dogs during the last ten years.

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go to the dogs
v. phr., informal To go to ruin; to be ruined or destroyed.
The man went to the dogs after he started drinking.
After the death of the owner, the business went to the dogs.
The team went to the dogs when its best players got hurt.
Compare: GO TO POT.

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