go to the dogs
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""[T]he merry old ways of good life have gone to the dogs—upon my carcase, they have!""
- "Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids."
- ""The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more." . . . Baer, who quit the agency four years ago, says he is angry about all this, but he clearly has a good time recounting how the C.I.A. went to the dogs."