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go south
From
Anton Shepelev
@2:221/6 to
Alexander Koryagin
on Sun Jan 31 14:56:28 2021
Alexander Koryagin:
Why does "go south" mean something wrong?
My uneducated conjecture is that at one point the phrase
became a reference to the flight of criminals from South US
to Mexico, in search of shelter.
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* Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)
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