gone to seed
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The outfit didn’t evoke a fearless mustering of Real American patriots so much as a Chippendale dancer gone to seed.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2024
You can see it in the embrace of Lynn’s reactionary “Death Wish”-style narrative, but also in Brian’s Eastwoodian scowls at his trash-strewn block, representative of an America that’s clearly gone to seed.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2023
This Batman has gone to seed, bearded, shaggy gray hair rattling around decayed Wayne Manor until he’s roused from his torpor by the twin Flashes.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023
Burr’s Nannine is a colonial boomtown gone to seed.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022
There’s a fountain in the middle of it, a round fountain spraying water in the shape of a dandelion gone to seed.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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