down the toilet

Meaning

down the toilet

(idiomatic) Into a state of collapse or failure: wasted, squandered; irretrievable.
Well, their reputation is down the toilet.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

down the drain down the tubes down the pan down the khazi down the tube down the cludgie

Related terms

in the toilet

Examples

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. Chuck Palahniuk

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. Sam Harris

Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker. James Carville

Words in the phrase

down the toilet

Close letter words and terms

down the shitter down the stairs down the stretch down the track down the tube down the tubes