单词 | down the toilet |
释义 | > as lemmasdown the toilet a. down the toilet: into a bad state; to the lowest possible level. Cf. down the pan at pan n.1 Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1967 Times 20 Oct. 3/5 He said that England was ‘going down the toilet’. 1972 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 17 Feb. 16 a/3 The movie business has gone down the toilet. 1980 TWA Ambassador Oct. 82/3 The gold market went right down the toilet. 1997 When Saturday Comes Jan. 36/1 The cameraman..could spend an age perfecting his angles, positions and profiles, but then see the whole lot disappear down the toilet as a result of somebody deliberately knocking everything over. 2003 Company June 70/1 My self-confidence went down the toilet. < as lemmas |
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