go Pete Tong
English
Verb
go Pete Tong
- (Cockney rhyming slang) To go wrong.
- 2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players (page 95)
- But when Bobby got busted, it all went Pete Tong for him.
- 2008, Dan Mills, Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq:
- It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off.
- 2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile
- Things started going Pete Tong as the superficially attractive two- or three-year fixed mortgage deals ran out, interest rates went up and the housing bubble inevitably burst.
- 2007, Robbie Fithon, Rainy City Players (page 95)