go down the tubes
(euphemistic, idiomatic, US) : to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
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(euphemistic, idiomatic, US) : to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
The entire plan went down the tubes when they found they couldn't get strawberries in December.
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