to go down the tube
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to experience a significant decline, failure, or deterioration in a situation, project, or endeavor
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Disapproving
Idiom
Exempel
After investing all their savings in the stock market, they watched as their portfolio went down the tube.
The artist's career was on the rise, but after a series of bad reviews and cancelled shows, it went down the tubes.
