19 сент. 2011 г. · The use of south as in the phrase go south stems from the 1920s (from the Oxford English Dictionary): colloq. (orig. Stock Market). Downward or lower in value, ...

10 июл. 2019 г. · Apparently it is not an offensive expression: go south (v.): "vanish, abscond," 1920s, American English, probably from mid-19c. notion of disappearing south to ...

7 янв. 2014 г. · According to the OED, this meaning of 'south' comes originally from stock markets. South on a map is obviously down at the bottom, ...

1 окт. 2019 г. · Go south: to deteriorate or decline.

23 июн. 2016 г. · This expression has been ascribed to a Native American legend that a dying man goes to meet the setting sun. However, it was first recorded in a ...

17 июл. 2015 г. · And in the later 1800's, the phrase 'gone south' was crossing over into the more depressing state where you were leaving and didn't like it, ...

17 июн. 2022 г. · The OED ("shoot" 37 b) says "get shot" is from a dialectal passive form of the verb "shoot", here meaning "to rid (of)".

14 янв. 2012 г. · Circumnavigation is a noun for, literally, heading south to go north (or vice-versa, as your first sentence contradicts your headline)

4 июл. 2016 г. · It appears to be an expression from American Black English whose earliest usage is from the middle '60s. It was widely used especially from the '80s in sport ...

4 мая 2021 г. · The OED says that the word is of "obscure origin". It has an entry from 1475, but doubts that it is identical with the modern word.