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going left

going left is the present participle of go left.

Meaning of go left

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.

Questions about going left

What is going left the present participle of?
Going left is the present participle of go left.

Words near going left in the dictionary

  1. going into detail
  2. going into one's shell
  3. going into the long grass
  4. going it
  5. going it alone
  6. going left
  7. going like a dream
  8. going long
  9. going mad
  10. going mental
  11. going missing

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