go to the devil

1. To be in an extremely and increasingly bad or ruinous condition; to be on the inevitable path to utter failure or ruin. Our project went to the devil after our funding was cut. With the way he's running things, the company is going to the devil.

2. To fall into moral degradation. It seems like our country is going to the devil! No one has any basic decency anymore.

3. An exclamation of anger, annoyance, or exasperation. If you can't be bothered to run our business like a professional, then you can go to the devil, for all I care!

go to the ˈdevil!

(old-fashioned, spoken) used, in an unfriendly way, to tell somebody to go away

Go to the devil!

verb

See Go to blazes!

go to the devil

1. To be unsuccessful; fail.

2. To become depraved.

3. Used in the imperative to express anger or impatience.

See also: devil, go

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

See also:

Go to the devil!
go to hell in a handcart
handbasket
handcart
be going to hell
go to hell in a bucket
go to hell in a handbasket
go to hell in a handbasket, to
go over like a lead balloon
lead balloon, go over like a

References in periodicals archive

The tracks are "Nottingham Ale", "Peggy Perkins", "Brandy O!", "Lully's Minuet", "Here's a Health to Ane I Lo'e Dear", "The Roast Beef of Old England", "Thomas and Sally (Overture)", "Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself', "College Hornpipe", "Sliced and Peppered", "Come, Fill Me a Bumper", "Crazy Jane", "Felton's Gavotte", "Welcome, Mighty Chief, Once More!

Brandy O!

Had I been a single man I could have addressed the fellow in a Christian manner and told him to go to the devil. As it was, any scruples I had no longer belonged to me; they had been promised to my wife and children by my marriage vows.

Honesty is the Best Policy: For these disguises did not disguise, but reveal

Williams delightedly riffed on the caricature, playing the role of an older Irish woman answering the sex line in a brusque brogue, ordering a horny caller to go to the devil with his impure thoughts.

It's all about loyalty, stupid

Another slogan, "Let the troika go to the devil," made reference to the country s international creditors -- the so-called troika of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.

Mass anti-austerity rallies in Spain, Portugal

"His philosophy is he is too good to go to the devil and too young to go to heaven.

I STOPPED TALIBAN BULLET; But brave Stephen wanted to fight on with his pals

The all-day, off-trail, strenuous hike won't ultimately go to the Devil's Staircase waterfall.

Outdoors

Go to the devil! This is slander towards me and disinformation to newspaper readers," Berlusconi was quoted, as saying.

Miffed Italian PM Berlusconi threatens news blackout

词组	go to the devil
释义	go to the devil go to the devil 1. To be in an extremely and increasingly bad or ruinous condition; to be on the inevitable path to utter failure or ruin. Our project went to the devil after our funding was cut. With the way he's running things, the company is going to the devil. 2. To fall into moral degradation. It seems like our country is going to the devil! No one has any basic decency anymore. 3. An exclamation of anger, annoyance, or exasperation. If you can't be bothered to run our business like a professional, then you can go to the devil, for all I care! See also: devil, go Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. go to the ˈdevil! (old-fashioned, spoken) used, in an unfriendly way, to tell somebody to go away See also: go Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary Go to the devil! verb See Go to blazes! See also: go McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions go to the devil 1. To be unsuccessful; fail. 2. To become depraved. 3. Used in the imperative to express anger or impatience. See also: devil, go American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. See also: Go to the devil! go to hell in a handcart handbasket handcart be going to hell go to hell in a bucket go to hell in a handbasket go to hell in a handbasket, to go over like a lead balloon lead balloon, go over like a References in periodicals archive The tracks are "Nottingham Ale", "Peggy Perkins", "Brandy O!", "Lully's Minuet", "Here's a Health to Ane I Lo'e Dear", "The Roast Beef of Old England", "Thomas and Sally (Overture)", "Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself', "College Hornpipe", "Sliced and Peppered", "Come, Fill Me a Bumper", "Crazy Jane", "Felton's Gavotte", "Welcome, Mighty Chief, Once More! Brandy O! Had I been a single man I could have addressed the fellow in a Christian manner and told him to go to the devil. As it was, any scruples I had no longer belonged to me; they had been promised to my wife and children by my marriage vows. Honesty is the Best Policy: For these disguises did not disguise, but reveal Williams delightedly riffed on the caricature, playing the role of an older Irish woman answering the sex line in a brusque brogue, ordering a horny caller to go to the devil with his impure thoughts. It's all about loyalty, stupid Another slogan, "Let the troika go to the devil," made reference to the country s international creditors -- the so-called troika of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Mass anti-austerity rallies in Spain, Portugal "His philosophy is he is too good to go to the devil and too young to go to heaven. I STOPPED TALIBAN BULLET; But brave Stephen wanted to fight on with his pals The all-day, off-trail, strenuous hike won't ultimately go to the Devil's Staircase waterfall. Outdoors Go to the devil! This is slander towards me and disinformation to newspaper readers," Berlusconi was quoted, as saying. Miffed Italian PM Berlusconi threatens news blackout
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