go(ing) to the dogs

To be ruined. This expression, which has meant to come to a bad end since the seventeenth century, assumes that dogs are inferior creatures, as so many other sayings do (a dog’s life, die like a dog, sick as a dog, and so on). It was already a cliché by the time Shaw wrote, “The country is going to the dogs” (Augustus Does His Bit, 1917).

词组	go(ing) to the dogs
释义	go(ing) to the dogs go(ing) to the dogs To be ruined. This expression, which has meant to come to a bad end since the seventeenth century, assumes that dogs are inferior creatures, as so many other sayings do (a dog’s life, die like a dog, sick as a dog, and so on). It was already a cliché by the time Shaw wrote, “The country is going to the dogs” (Augustus Does His Bit, 1917). See also: dog The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: drunk as a lord/skunk time on one's hands, (to have) last-ditch defense/effort believe one's own eyes, one cannot in over one's head, to be flying colors, come off with laugh out of the other side of your face/mouth, you'll/to an apple a day (keeps the doctor away) settle old scores, to busy as a beaver/bee
随便看	witching witching hour with with a bang with a capital with a capital A, B, C, etc. with a capital A/B/C, etc. with a capital (some letter) with a difference with advance notice with a fine-tooth comb with a flea in your ear with (a) forked tongue with a grain of salt with a grain/pinch of salt, (to take) with a heavy hand with a heavy heart with a heavy/sinking heart with a high hand with a light heart with (all due) respect with all due respect with all guns blazing with all heart (with) all mod cons