go left

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go left

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

verb goes left · going left · went left · gone left

idiomatic, slang To 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.”
Similar: go downhill, go sideways, go south, atrophy, break down, crack, decline, deteriorate, degenerate, devolve, confound, fade
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, left.

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@misc{go_left_2026,
  title = {go left},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/go%20left},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}