英和和英

動詞

go to pot (三人称単数 現在形 goes to pot, 現在分詞 going to pot, 過去形 went to pot, 過去分詞 gone to pot)

1. (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.

   • 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     Iacke Straw. […] I haue his wife and children pledges, for his ſpeedie returne from the King, to whom he is gone with our meſſage.
     Tom Miller. Let him take heede hee bring a wiſe anſwere to our worships, or els his pledges goes to the pot.

2. (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."

同意語

• (decline または deteriorate): go to shit (卑語); go to the dogs, go downhill; see also Thesaurus:worsen