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go horribly right

go horribly right verb: to produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences.
    • I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped.2020 January 19, Julian Morrow (quoted), Jenny Valentish, Naaman Zhou, “How The Chaser invaded Apec: 'A small video tape was secreted behind his scrotum'”, in The Guardian

Forms of go horribly right

third-person singular presentgoes horribly right
present participlegoing horribly right
pastwent horribly right
past participlegone horribly right

Questions about go horribly right

What does go horribly right mean?
Go horribly right means to produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences.
What part of speech is go horribly right?
Go horribly right is a verb.
What is the past tense of go horribly right?
The past tense of go horribly right is went horribly right.

Words near go horribly right in the dictionary

  1. go Holland
  2. go Hollywood
  3. go home
  4. go hor lan
  5. go horlan
  6. go horribly right
  7. go hostile
  8. go howl at the moon
  9. go hungry
  10. go hunting where the ducks are
  11. go in

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