Examples:

• Please, let us not allow the situation to go to the dogs.
• They sit in impotent opposition while the country goes to the dogs.
• Could our dogs come back to us, or were we going to the dogs?
• Have you seen their car lately? It’s really gone to the dogs.
• I'll take the holy vow to be worthless, to be drunken and go to the dogs.
• Many things in our home have gone to the dogs during the last 3 months.
• I'll take the holy vow to be worthless, to be drunken and go to the dogs.
• She was a very successful actress, but her drinking habit and illegal affairs caused her career to go to the dogs.
• For I know'tis the height of wisdom to be drunken and go to the dogs.
• It seems that the reputation of your business has gone to the dogs.
• Then I will follow you, comrade, and be drunken and go to the dogs.