go down the pan
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go down the pan (third-person singular simple present goes down the pan, present participle going down the pan, simple past went down the pan, past participle gone down the pan)
- (euphemistic, idiomatic, British) Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
- The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.