go south | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To becomeunfavorable; todecrease; totake a turn for the worse.I should have walked away from the casino when my luckwent south, but I stayed and ended up in the hole.1967, Bill Sparks,Wild Weasel mission 5 November 1967I still had 5 miles (8 km) or so to go to cross the river when all of the controlswent south. The bird pitched up, shuddered, rolled right like it was going to spin[…]2023October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, inSCP Foundation‎[1], archived fromthe originalon22 May 2024:There was only one more guard between her and her goal, and despite her preparation, it almost allwent south. The woman walked out of a door Fina hadn't even known was there, nearly bowling her over, and it was all she could do to bring the butt of the rifle up to smash the insurgent's nose in. She cried out, and Fina brought the butt 'round again, and this time the bone must have pierced the brain because the body went limp with a final, plaintive gurgle.Synonyms:go downhill,go left,head south,move south,turn south;see alsoThesaurus:worsen; (intransitive)To make anescape; todisappear.1929, Peter B. Kyne,The Parson of Panamint and Other Stories, page197:He won! A disbeliever, from childhood, in the frequency of miracles, he gathered up seven hundred and forty dollars and "went south" with it.2004,Cory Doctorow,Microsoft Research DRM talk:[…]she decided to tape the DVD off to VHS and give that to the kids -- that way she could make a fresh VHS copy when the first onewent south.; (slang)To give somebodyoral sex.; (pokerslang)Torathole: to takechipsoff the table in acash gamewithout exiting the game completely, especially with the intention of limiting losses.

Examples:

EN: - # Maybe you should go south # - # No, I'm too warm #
ES: - Deberías ir al sur.
EN: He tells me he's got to go south for a month.
ES: Dice que se tiene que ir al sur un mes.
EN: He's got to go south.
ES: Tiene que irse al sur.
EN: Heads we go north, and tails we go south.
ES: Cara, al norte. Cruz, al sur.
EN: I'll go south, write for the newspapers, that's an alternative.
ES: Me iré al sur, a escribir para los periódicos... eso podría ser...
EN: You go south because you have trouble with woman up in Frisco maybe?
ES: ¿Te vas al sur porque tienes problemas con una mujer en Frisco?
EN: - That's a lot of dough to go south with.
ES: - Es mucho dinero para perder.
EN: We'll keep it, we'll go south.
ES: La conservaremos. Iremos al sur.
EN: The land is our life and it's better to go south, or die walking, than to give it to you, for nothing!
ES: Esta tierra es nuestra vida. Y es mejor irnos al sur o morir caminando que dársela a ustedes por nada.
EN: I go north you go south
ES: Yo voy al norte tú vas al sur
EN: Do we go south?
ES: ¿Iremos al sur?
EN: Like migrant birds, they come north in the spring, and go south in the winter.
ES: vienen al norte en primavera, y se van al sur en invierno.
EN: I wish we didn't have to go south next week.
ES: Desearía no tener que viajar al sur la semana que viene.
EN: Every winter from now on, we'll take the kids and we'll go south.
ES: A partir de ahora, cada invierno vendremos al sur con los chicos.
EN: But now I'll give it all up and we'll go south.
ES: Pero ahora voy a dejarlo todo y nos iremos al sur.

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