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English
Etymology
Named after disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.
Verb
go Pete Tong (third-person singular simple present goes Pete Tong, present participle going Pete Tong, simple past went Pete Tong, past participle gone Pete Tong)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) To go wrong.
2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players, page 95:But when Bobby got busted, it all went Pete Tong for him.
2008, Dan Mills, Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq:It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off.
2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile:Things started going Pete Tong as the superficially attractive two- or three-year fixed mortgage deals ran out, interest rates went up and the housing bubble inevitably burst.
2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 46:On leaving the train at Piccadilly, everything goes 'Pete Tong'. Services are in complete disarray, as a tree has come down onto the line at Gatley.
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