blooey

Related to blooey: Bloody Mary

blooey

1. Used to indicate that something has completely failed or gone awry. Plans for the gala are all blooey—our chief donor backed out and took his millions with him.
2. slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really blooey!

go blooey

slang To go completely awry; to totally fail. Plans for the gala went blooey after our chief donor backed out and took his millions with him.
See also: blooey, go
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blooey

(ˈblui)
1. mod. gone; destroyed. Everything is finished, blooey!
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man, I’m blooey. I’m stoned to the bones.

go blooey

and go flooey (go ˈblui and go ˈflui)
in. to fall apart; to go out of order. All my plans went blooey because of the rain. I just hope everything doesn’t go flooey at the last minute.
See also: blooey, go
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • go blooey
  • go flooey
  • all for the best
  • for the best
  • to hell in a handbasket
  • comp
  • get off on the wrong foot
  • bad break
  • start off on the wrong foot
  • be for the best
References in periodicals archive
Blooey. It's like the last act in vaudeville and anyhow it seems to me that I did it fifteen years ago").
Commuter literate: behind the carefully constructed persona of suburban squire, John Cheever waged a tumultuous battle against himself--a struggle that only found its way into his very last works of fiction
In this new world of laissez-faire, when things go blooey, the government itself is exposed to risk alongside hapless investors--if the commercial banks are lending federally insured deposits along with their own investment plays or are exercising what amounts to an equity position in the failed management.
CRIME IN THE SUITES
But then, as soon as the Asian countries went blooey, the new conventional line was that their fates didn't matter to us: "We've got the best, most vibrant economy in the world.
Global roulette: in a volatile world economy, can everyone lose?
Every time you get going nicely, in barges some alien influence and the Muse goes blooey. (149)
Comedy among the modernists: P.G. Wodehouse and the anachronism of comic form
(Moynihan, a great reviser of his own history, now says it was the discovery of this statistic that prompted the report--"the numbers went blooey on me," as he puts it.) Finally Moynihan took a detailed outline from his assistants, wrote the report himself, and brought it to his boss, Willard Wirtz, the secretary of labor.
Slumlord; Pat Moynihan has done some great things - but betraying the poverty warriors isn't one of them
Children's book blogger Blooey Singson explained that she liked the personality in Gourlay's books.
Identity crisis spawns 2 books by awarded, UK-based Filipino Candy Gourlay