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in the toilet

in the toilet prepositional phrase: finished; at an ignoble end.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Finished; at an ignoble end.
    • Doing that again will put your job in the toilet.

Questions about in the toilet

What does in the toilet mean?
In the toilet means finished; at an ignoble end.
What part of speech is in the toilet?
In the toilet is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the toilet in the dictionary

  1. in the teeth of
  2. in the thick of
  3. in the thick of it
  4. in the throes of
  5. in the throws of
  6. in the toilet
  7. in the trenches
  8. in the twinkling of a bedpost
  9. in the twinkling of a bedstaff
  10. in the twinkling of an eye
  11. in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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