Possibly an alteration ofgo wrong using an antonym of a different sense of the adjectiveright.[1]
goleft (third-person singular simple presentgoes left,present participlegoing left,simple pastwent left,past participlegone left)
- (slang, idiomatic) Totake a turn for the worse, to gohorriblywrong.
- Synonyms:go downhill,go sideways,go south;see alsoThesaurus:worsen
2019 June 6, Ny Magee, “Ja Rule says despite colossal failure, he’d do a Fyre Festival”, inTheGrio[2]:Two documentaries have been dedicated to exploring why the Fyre Festivalwent left, available on Hulu and Netflix — “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” and “Fyre Fraud.”
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seego,left.
- ^Ben Zimmer (5 May 2017), “The Sinister History of ‘Going Left’”, inThe Wall Street Jourrnal[1]: “Ja Rule is not the first to use ‘go left’ to mean ‘go wrong,’ playing on the double meaning of ‘right.’ ”
