go downhill

Verb

Meaning

go downhill (third-person singular simple present goes downhill, present participle going downhill, simple past went downhill, past participle gone downhill)

(idiomatic) To worsen or degenerate.
I usually run fast enough, but my speed goes downhill when I don't sleep enough.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

decline tank decay fail degrade degenerate deteriorate retrograde worsen regress retrogress recidivate come apart go to pieces go to the dogs
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Antonyms

bloom boomerang turn-out burgeon develop spread
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Examples

And that’s when everything started to go downhill. Source: Internet

I sure like v 1.6.2 and rely on it a lot and hate to see it go downhill with ver 2.x. Source: Internet

The GAO report starts out by praising the Webb mission for making “considerable progress” in the last few months in hardware integration, but things go downhill from there. Source: Internet

In reality, no matter how nice your are, and how fantastic your voice sounds, it will all go downhill if your room does not have some treatment. Source: Internet

Things go downhill from there pretty quickly for the son of the politician who kills himself and soon there is a missing child to worry about as well. Source: Internet

You know the Spago in Beverly Hills, I thought we had plateaued for a few years and then I said ‘if we don’t change now, we’re going to go downhill and then it’s too late.’ Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

go down with go down with the ship go down without a fight go downtown go downward go dry