go down the toilet
To fail.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Our plans went down the toilet when it started raining.”
“The project went down the toilet after the main investor decided to pull out at the last minute.”
“Despite the team's exhaustive efforts to save the company, the entire business venture eventually went down the toilet due to poor management.”
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all dressed up and nowhere to go
Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.
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all systems go
Everything is ready.
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as you go
While one is doing (something); as one progresses.
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boldly go where no man has gone before
To break new ground.
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come and go
To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
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don't go there
Do not broach that topic.
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easy come, easy go
Easily won and easily lost (usually said when resigned to a loss; something that comes in the same way, goes in the same way)
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enough to go around
There is an adequate amount or supply of something for all of the people present or involved.
Last updated August 10, 2026