go backwards

verb — 2 senses

verb

To decline or deteriorate; to get worse.

Obsolete, Slang To defecate; to visit the privy.

[O]ne day he expressed his desire of going backwards with such natural imitation of his purpose, that every body in the room firmly believed he had actually overshot himself, and fortified their nostrils accordingly.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

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