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Etymology
Figuratively be cut up and tossed into a pot like meat.
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go to pot (third-person singular simple present goes to pot, present participle going to pot, simple past went to pot, past participle gone to pot)
- (figuratively) To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate.
- They haven't been maintaining it, and the downtown area has really gone to pot over the past 20 years.
1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw , Act I:Iacke Straw. […] I haue his wife and children pledges, for his ſpeedie returne from the King, to whom he is gone with our meſſage.
Tom Miller. Let him take heede hee bring a wiſe anſwere to our worships, or els his pledges goes to the pot.
- (archaic) Go to hell. (an angry dismissal)
1837 September 20, William Cullen Bryant, Calhoun’s Diminished Stature:At this moment the rabbit sprang from his arms and disappeared among the brush wood. "Go to pot," said the man, "you are a good-for-nothing dry-meated beast, to make the best of you."
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