go to pot
To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorateTo come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate.
» I'll go make another pot of coffee.
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2 senses(figuratively)To come to ruin, especially 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.
auf dem absteigenden Ast sein
приходить в упадокprixoditʹ v upadok
- become ruined
Examples
5 sentencesI'll go make another pot of coffee.
I'm going to make a pot of coffee.
Because of you, everything went to pot.
ruИз-за тебя всё насмарку. — marafon
An inexperienced stock speculator could easily let his business go to pot and lose his entire fortune.
ruНеопытный биржевой спекулянт мог бы легко довести своё дело до точки и утратить всё своё состояние. — Snark
Mary makes tea the way she's always done: without teabags. The tea goes straight into the pot.
deMaria bereitet den Tee noch so wie früher zu: ohne Beutel – der Tee kommt direkt in die Kanne. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.
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Forms
goes to pot, going to pot, went to pot, gone to pot| Base form | go to pot · to go to pot |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | goes to pot |
| Present participle | going to pot |
| Past simple | went to pot |
| Past participle | gone to pot |
irregular · Lesson
Synonyms
2 synonyms- become ruined:go to the dogs
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.