| 单词 | to go to the dogs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to the dogs to go to the dogs: to attend a greyhound race meeting (sometimes with punning allusion to Phrases 7b).extracted from dogn.1to go to the dogs b. to go to the dogs: to go to destruction or ruin, to deteriorate shockingly. ΚΠ 1619 R. Harris Drunkards Cup Ep. Ded. sig. A2v One is coloured, another is foxt, a third is gone to the dogs. 1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) Old Oliver's gon to the dogs, Oh! No I do mistake, He's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is cal'd the Stygian Lake. 1749 I. G. Hist. Filchum Cantum 20 Zounds he overcomes us by fair Argument, we are a going to the Dogs in a Whiff! 1790 M. Wollstonecraft tr. C. G. Salzmann Elem. Morality I. xvi. 115 He sees all his property going to the dogs, which always puts him out of humour. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 137 Rugby, and the School-house especially, are going to the dogs. 1910 F. L. Chance Bride & Pennant i. 10 ‘That's all the college feeling these faculty guys have,’ reiterated Bentley, nodding assent. ‘The U. is going to the dogs!’ 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names xi. 299 Country's going to the dogs. Used to be the finest railway in the world, now look at it. < as lemmas |
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