Usually means: Plan fails, situation deteriorates rapidly.
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  1. go south: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. go south: Wiktionary
  3. go south: Dictionary.com
  4. go south: Online Etymology Dictionary
  5. Go South: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. go south: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go south: Idioms

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  1. go south: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (go south)

verb:  (idiomatic) To become unfavorable; to decrease; to take a turn for the worse.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an escape; to disappear.
verb:  (slang) To give somebody oral sex.
verb:  (poker slang) To rathole: to take chips off the table in a cash game without exiting the game completely, especially with the intention of limiting losses.

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