go to the dogs

1. 1.

   become ruined

   “His business went to pot when economy soured”

   Synonymsgo to pot

   Broaderdeteriorate

Questions about go to the dogs

What does go to the dogs mean?

go to the dogs means "become ruined".

What is another word for go to the dogs?

Close synonyms include go to pot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is go to the dogs a common word?

go to the dogs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.