go to the dogs

Meaning

1. to get into a very bad state

   This firm's gone to the dogs since the new management took over.

In the movies · 6

• and that we re going to be turned into dogs or canaries or something 199466The Lobster2015
• I got foot patrols going through the park, dogs are on the way.Zodiac2007
• If I go any higher, only dogs will hear me.Bohemian Rhapsody2018
• We go north, always north. His dogs are dead, his supplies exhausted.National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• It said it was going to rain cats and dogs.The Great Muppet Caper1981
• No the dog does not go Anastasia I say he s going I m allergic to dogsAnastasia1997

Learn it in full scenes

• Zodiac2007
  • Darlene Ferrin's Last Drive
  • The Zodiac Confession Call
  • Zodiac's Cipher Reaches the Chronicle

From the same entry

• a dog and pony show
• dog eat dog
• a dog in the manger
• a dog's breakfast
• a dog's life
• every dog has his day
• give a dog a bad name
• not have a dog's chance
• why keep a dog and bark yourself
• the hair of the dog
• be raining cats and dogs
• sick as a dog