French: à vau-l’eauEnglish translation: falling apart 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | à vau-l’eau | | English translation: | falling apart |
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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | French term or phrase: à vau-l’eau | | must be a French expression that I do not know... |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseSwissTell: 10:28pm Jun 4, 2005: again more context required. In what connection is this expression used? -
writeaway: 9:47am Jun 5, 2005: please show how it's used in your text. Can you please provide the entire French sentence. -
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| | It is falling apart | Explanation:
For a business for example, it means "to be on the decline" or "to collapse" |
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| (going) to the dogs
Explanation:
à vau-l'eau = (lit.) with the stream, with the current
aller / s’en aller à vau-l'eau = to be falling apart, to be on the road to ruin, to be going to the dogs
voilà tous mes projets à vau-l'eau = there are all my plans in ruins / down the drain
(Robert French-English & Oxford French-English)
|  Nick Lingris
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Native speaker of:  Greek
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