GO TO POT Definition & Meaning

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go to pot

To decline or deteriorate: “Since most of the businesses moved out to the suburbs, my old neighborhood has really gone to pot.”

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, go to the dogs . Deteriorate, decline; come to a bad end. For example, My lawn has gone to pot during the drought , or The city schools are going to the dogs . The first of these colloquial expressions dates from the late 1500s and alludes to inferior pieces of meat being cut up for the stewpot. The second, from the 1600s, alludes to the traditional view of dogs as inferior creatures. Also see rack and ruin ; run to seed .

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Karen said: "The area was starting to fall down, they weren't keeping maintenance on it - the area started going to pot. I don't think they were putting money into it."

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"The whole country has gone to pot," she said.

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“As my dad said, ‘As long as you can feed yourself, the whole world can go to pot, mijo, and you’ll be OK,’” he cracked.

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Has Canada's legal cannabis industry gone to pot?

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"It gets really tiring constantly adapting, every plan you make goes to pot."

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