Idiom
go left
Meaning
To take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The party started well, but then things went left.”
“We had a solid plan for the project, but everything went left when the main server crashed.”
“Despite our careful preparations, the entire negotiation went left as soon as the opposing team introduced their unexpected demands.”
Examples
simple
“The party started well, but then things went left.”
contextual
“We had a solid plan for the project, but everything went left when the main server crashed.”
complex
“Despite our careful preparations, the entire negotiation went left as soon as the opposing team introduced their unexpected demands.”
Origin
The expression is possibly an alteration of the phrase to go wrong, constructed by substituting an antonym for the adjective right. It relies on the linguistic relationship between the two terms, though the specific origin of this substitution remains unproven.
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