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down the toilet
(redirected from down the pan)

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down the toilet  (British, American & Australian informal) also down the pan (British informal)
if something goes down the toilet, it is wasted or spoiled After the drug scandal, his career went down the toilet. If the factory closes, that'll be a million pounds' worth of investment down the pan.
See also: toilet

down the toilet
wasted or lost down the drain Appearing on that talk show is usually a sign that your career is already down the toilet.
Usage notes: often used with go: He never showed up to drive us, and our plans for the evening went down the toilet.
See also: toilet


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Inasmuch as I understand anything at all, it would appear that right up to the very last minute of their 158-year history, Lehman Brothers failed to predict that they were going down the pan and failed to predict that nobody would bail them out, but still somehow managed to predict that they would need a very large supply of aforementioned neat cardboard boxes to hand.
Who now remembers John Osborne's self-regarding "damn you England" outburst in a letter written to the Times from somewhere nice abroad when Harold Macmillan was going down the pan in the early 60s?
He told us he had been called in as a consultant when a very famous butchery business in Johannesburg had started to go down the pan after the founder had died.
 
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