释义 |
go down the panBritish informal Fail utterly: the company went down the pan last year...- But six centuries of history went down the pan when council officers forgot to fill out the necessary forms to remain a city.
- I'd been pretty bright at school, then suddenly I started going down the pan.
- She said: ‘I had tried so hard to train her, but I was losing so much business and my reputation was going down the pan.’
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