Go to the devil!

go to the devil

1. verb To be in an extremely and increasingly bad or ruinous condition; to be on the inevitable path to utter failure or ruin. Our project went to the devil after our funding was cut. With the way he's running things, the company is going to the devil. This whole presentation is a disaster—it went to the devil as soon as Mia resigned.

2. verb To fall into moral degradation. It seems like our country is going to the devil! No one has any basic decency anymore. Don't mind your grandmother—as far as she's concerned, everything went to the devil in the 1960s. Mom, the kids will not go to the devil just because they missed one Mass, OK?

3. expression An exclamation of anger, annoyance, or exasperation. If you can't be bothered to run our business like a professional, then you can go to the devil, for all I care! Did you just insult my mom? Well, you can go to the devil then! Go to the devil already, will ya? You're annoying us.

See also: devil, go, to

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go to the ˈdevil!

(old-fashioned, spoken) used, in an unfriendly way, to tell somebody to go away

See also: go, to

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Go to the devil!

verb

See Go to blazes!

See also: go, to

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