go to the dogs

短语

堕落, 毁灭

发音

AU

词形变化

goes to the dogs 三单 goes to the dogs going to the dogs gone to the dogs went to the dogs going to the dogs 现在分词 went to the dogs 过去式 gone to the dogs 过去式 gone to the dogs 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To decline or deteriorate shockingly.

    习语 非正式

    "The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more." . . . Baer, who quit the agency four years ago, says he is angry about all this, but he clearly has a good time recounting how the C.I.A. went to the dogs.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

go to pot

上位词 1

deteriorate