Verb
go to pot
- (figuratively) To decline or deteriorate.
- They haven't been maintaining it, and the downtown area has really gone to pot over the past 20 years.
- (archaic) Go to hell. an angry dismissal
- 1837 September 20, William Cullen Bryant, “Calhoun’s Diminished Stature”:
- 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."
- 1837 September 20, William Cullen Bryant, “Calhoun’s Diminished Stature”:
- (decline or deteriorate) go to shit (vulgar); go to the dogs, go downhill; see also Thesaurus:worsen
- Russian: приходить в упадок
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