Definitions

down the tubes

ADJECTIVE

down the drain

Synonyms

WEAK

all gone by the board done for finished kaput lost to pfft

ADJECTIVE

kaput

Synonyms

WEAK

all washed up belly up burned out cooked dead destroyed done for down and out down for the count down the drain finished floored had it nonfunctioning on the skids out of business out of circulation sunk totaled washed up wiped-out

Example Sentences

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“Most critics are stupid. They really are. Theater criticism has gone right down the tubes,” Cox said.

From Salon

"From that point on I have always had a soft spot for them, but I started focusing on them more and more as Scottish football started to go down the tubes a little bit."

From BBC

The 50-year-old had been picked to do the latest Bushtucker trial, titled Down The Tubes, with fellow campmate Josie Gibson.

From BBC

“Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there, because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times in 2017, musing on why he believed the news media would support his re-election efforts.

From New York Times

And this is when New York was having all this financial trouble, and it was gonna go down the tubes.

From Los Angeles Times

down the tubes

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