go to smash

English

Verb

go to smash (third-person singular simple present goes to smash, present participle going to smash, simple past went to smash, past participle gone to smash)

1. (slang, dated) To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.

   Synonym: smash

   • 1913, William Miller Collier, Mark L. Whitney, James Webster Eaton, American Bankruptcy Reports Annotated, page 654:

     […] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […]

   • 2009, Lynn Kear, James King, Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, page 96:

     […] her first marriage went to smash several years ago and now her second one is on the rocks […]