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1. (informal) if something goes down the tubes, it fails or disappears Our holiday plans went down the tube because of the train strike.

2. (American informal) if someone goes down the tubes, they fail He's in danger of going down the tubes if he doesn't learn to get on with people at work.

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``That's why so many of us have been hanging on, even though we believed the institution was going down the tubes very quickly. LAW SCHOOL TO REMAIN OPEN DESPITE LOSS OF ACCREDITATION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Perhaps it takes a citizen of Britannia to teach Americans how to have a laugh while one's empire--of gender or geopolitics--goes down the tubes. Keith Farquhar: Nyehaus by Ammirati, Domenick / Artforum International and then unfortunately all your good work may go down the tubes because the last thing they remember is that you didn't follow up on the things you needed to. One final note: why your last impression is as important as your first by Straker, Erin / Black Enterprise More results

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``That's why so many of us have been hanging on, even though we believed the institution was going down the tubes very quickly.

LAW SCHOOL TO REMAIN OPEN DESPITE LOSS OF ACCREDITATION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Perhaps it takes a citizen of Britannia to teach Americans how to have a laugh while one's empire--of gender or geopolitics--goes down the tubes.

Keith Farquhar: Nyehaus by Ammirati, Domenick / Artforum International

and then unfortunately all your good work may go down the tubes because the last thing they remember is that you didn't follow up on the things you needed to.

One final note: why your last impression is as important as your first by Straker, Erin / Black Enterprise

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