going south
Heading toward failure
Going south means heading in a southerly direction, but more often describes something deteriorating or failing: The project was going south fast, My back started going south in my forties.
The phrase suggests decline, as if falling off a map.
In financial contexts, prices or investments going south are dropping in value.
- downwardToward a lower position
- southboundHeading toward the pole below
- plummetRapid downward descent
- circling the drainApproaching inevitable end
- down the tubesFailing beyond recovery
deteriorate · slump · on the rocks · hitting the skids · nosedive · decline · fail · worsen · tropics · breakdown · descending · collapse · off the rails · migration · bankruptcy · degrade · bottom out · retire
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- moral decaymoral decay, moral decline, moral collapse, moral bankruptcy, degeneration
trajectory/progress
going southimproving
Becoming more capable
getting better · on the rise · looking up · turning around · picking up
goes, gone, going, goers, south, southern, southerly, southward, southwards