literally going to the dogs
Thursday, September 15th, 2005Going to the Digital Dogs [Fool.com]
Handheld gaming systems have gone to the dogs, literally. That’s because Nintendo has a hit with its Nintendogs puppy-simulator game cartridges.
I like this one, it’s clever, but technically it is incorrect.
The idiom “going to the dogs” means that something is deteriorating or coming to a bad end.
A literal interpretation would [...]