# go the way of

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/go-the-way-of
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To end up the same way as; to undergo the same fate as.

## Examples

- My old phone will soon go the way of my broken laptop.
- The small bookstore struggled for years before it finally went the way of many other local shops and closed down.
- Historians often warn that if a society ignores its past mistakes, it will inevitably go the way of the great empires that collapsed centuries ago.

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