go to the bad

go to the bad (third-person singular simple present goes to the bad, present participle going to the bad, simple past went to the bad, past participle gone to the bad)

1. Synonym of go bad (“to become delinquent or criminal”).
   • 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter VII, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 59:

     His career, though scholastic, was varied, and had included going to the bad and repenting thereafter.