go left

Meanings

verbgo left (third-person singular simple present goes left, present participle going left, simple past went left, past participle gone left)

present singular third person goes left · participle present going left · past went left · participle past gone left

idiomaticslangTo take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.
Two documentaries have been dedicated to exploring why the Fyre Festival went left, available on Hulu and Netflix — “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” and “Fyre Fraud.”
2019 June 6, Ny Magee, “Ja Rule says despite colossal failure, he’d do a Fyre Festival”, in TheGrio
Synonyms: go downhill, go sideways, go south, atrophy, break down, crack, decline, deteriorate
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, left.

verbTo take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.

Also see

Possibly an alteration of go wrong using an antonym of a different sense of the adjective right.

Cite this entry

APA

go left. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20left

MLA

“go left.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20left. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go left,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20left.

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