going horribly right

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