The local park is going to the dogs.
go to the dogs
idiomTo decline or deteriorate shockingly.
Many residents worry that the city center is going to the dogs due to poor maintenance.
Observers argued that the once-prosperous company was going to the dogs after years of mismanagement and declining product quality.
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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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call off the dogs
To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.
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come and go
To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
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dogs bark, cats meow
Used to introduce something seen as inevitable or totally commonplace.
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don't go there
Do not broach that topic.