down the toilet
(UK also down the pan) informalDefinition
› If something is or goes down the toilet, it is wasted or spoiled: After the drugs scandal, his career went down the toilet.Unsuccessful (people and things)
(Definition of down the toilet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- abortive adjective
- achiever noun
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched adjective
- counterproductive adjective
- flatline verb
- futile adjective
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious adjective
- lame duck noun (UNSUCCESSFUL)
- no-win adjective
- small-time adjective
- stillborn adjective
- struggling adjective
- the doldrums noun
- unavailing adjective
- unglued adjective
- unpromising adjective
- vainly adverb
- washed up adjective
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