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go to smash en · VERB
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(dated, slang) To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.
[…] her first marriage went to smash several years ago and now her second one is on the rocks […]
2009, Lynn Kear, James King, Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, page 96:[…] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […]
1913, William Miller Collier, Mark L. Whitney, James Webster Eaton, American Bankruptcy Reports Annotated, page 654:
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