Down the tubes

Posted by RRC on May 17, 2007

In Reply to: Down the tubes posted by Brian Flanagan on May 17, 2007

: "Down the tubes". Doed it come from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" where people beyond a certain age were expected to present themselves for recycling?

See on this very site: www.phrases.org.uk meanings 121150.html