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down the tubes 

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Popular UK expression, especially 20 or thirty years ago = when your life or a situation is fast deteriorating or going rapidly downhill

Tubes = probably has its origins in toilet tubes or pipes
We were good at first but our relationship is going down the tubes

Our season has gone totally down the tubes and looks like we'll be relegated
down the tubes by notquitepatrick February 21, 2020
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down the tube 

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Another way of saying that something is really going to pot -- when you say such-and-such is going down the tube, it is spiraling downhill extremely rapidly.
Man this drone flight is really going down the tube...O FUCK, There's a tree!!! (*CRASH!!!*)

That woman's performance on American Idol started to go down the tube when she forgot a critical lyric to the song she was performing.
down the tube by Telephony October 8, 2018
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down the tube • Down the Fauci tube • down the rabbit hole • down the shore • down the hill • down the road • down the way • down the street • down the beach • Down the flats

Down the Fauci tube 

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Going Down the rabbit hole, off on some unknown tangent
Nicolle Wallace has gone down the Fauci tube, away from her job description
Down the Fauci tube by Uncle Dimma January 10, 2022
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