Why does "go south" mean something wrong?
Why does "go south" mean something wrong?
This is a long story, best explained I think, at https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2006-12-26-0612260438-story.html
In brief, on most maps South is down so the correlation
becomes "going down" = "going South" = "going bad". There are other possibilies.. let me know if you can't access the link.
Why does "go south" mean something wrong?
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