to turn to shit

Examples

• All

• The project we worked hard on has completely turned to shit after the budget cuts.

• Ever since you got engaged, everything's turned to shit!

  Bridesmaids (2011)

• This whole place is turning to shit

  The Palace (2023)

• Everything you do, everything you touch turns to shit!

  Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

• Does everything you touch turn to shit?

  Jesus' Son (2000)

• It's all turned to shit!

  Bombshell (2016)

• Everything I touch turns to shit.

  Fiction book (2002)

• By then, the cars were already starting to turn to shit.

  Blog text (14)

• My simple and elegant plan is turning to shit right in front of my eyes.

  Running Time (1997)

• Just don't come crying to me when this turns to shit.

  Off Limits (1988)

Synonyms

G

to go up in smoke

vsto turn to shit

• Informal

18 5.5

Plans or hopes suddenly fail and disappear for good

is a crude way to describe sudden complete loss or failure

G

to go sour

vsto turn to shit

17 4.1

To become bad or fail, for example a relationship

is a more vulgar, stronger way to signal bad deterioration

B

to bite the dust

vsto turn to shit

• Informal

11 6.8

To stop working or fail completely

is a cruder phrase emphasizing severe failure or end

G

to go to hell in a handbasket

vsto turn to shit

• Informal

8 9.3

To become much worse very quickly and out of control

is a coarse way to stress rapid, bad deterioration

T

to turn to dust

vsto turn to shit

7 6.6

To be completely ruined and lose all value

is a blunt, coarse way to mark total breakdown

B

to begin to crumble

vsto turn to shit

4 4.0

Start to break into pieces or stop working well

is harsher and implies sudden, severe failure rather than slow decay

G

to go in the toilet

vsto turn to shit

• Informal

1 7.9

To fail completely

is an informal vulgar phrase for total failure

D

down the pan

vsto turn to shit

• UK

1 9.9

Completely ruined or wasted and no longer useful

is a stronger, more vulgar way to express the same ruin

T

to turn into a shithouse

vsto turn to shit

• Offensive

9.9

To suddenly become chaotic and very messy

is a vulgar expression for severe ruin or collapse

Y

to yield up the ghost

vsto turn to shit

• Archaic

9.8

To stop working or to die after a long time of getting worse

is a vulgar phrase stressing ruin rather than final cessation

Antonyms

S

to succeed

846 2.0

To reach a goal after trying hard

T

to thrive

241 3.2

To grow well and be successful

How Destroyed

to collapse

579 3.9

to turn to shit

• Offensive

9 9.9

to go downhill

• Informal

37 3.9

to deteriorate

146 5.9

to go wrong

495 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology