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Meaning of go to smash | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.

dated, slang

Examples

“[…] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […]”

“[…] her first marriage went to smash several years ago and now her second one is on the rocks […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

go to someone's head go to the bad go to the bathroom go to the bow-wows go to the country go to the devil