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go left

go left verb: to take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.
    • Two documentaries have been dedicated to exploring why the Fyre Festival went left, available on Hulu and Netflix — “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” and “Fyre Fraud.”2019 June 6, Ny Magee, “Ja Rule says despite colossal failure, he’d do a Fyre Festival”, in TheGrio
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, left.

Synonyms of go left

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Forms of go left

third-person singular presentgoes left
present participlegoing left
pastwent left
past participlegone left

Origin of go left

Possibly an alteration of go wrong using an antonym of a different sense of the adjective right.

Questions about go left

What does go left mean?
Go left means to take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.
What part of speech is go left?
Go left is a verb.
What is the past tense of go left?
The past tense of go left is went left.

Words near go left in the dictionary

  1. go jump off a bridge
  2. go jump off a building
  3. go jump off a cliff
  4. go kaflooey
  5. go large
  6. go left
  7. go like a dream
  8. go long
  9. go mad
  10. go mental
  11. go missing

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