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Today's Idiom = "Down The Tubes"

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Down The Tubes ( it is lost and gone; the thing got ruined ... )
"down the tubes"



When a good thing goes bad, it goes "down the tubes". Example: "What happened to your plans for tonight?" Reply: "Down the tubes." Another example: "That was the year my grades went down the tubes."



Down The Street
Down To Earth

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