Show s OW IT H STARTED D r i By y JEAN NEWTON EWTON TO GO TO POT H I gS g'S S GONE nil all to pot JUt we hear about a n man mon who has suffered a breakdown perhaps breakdown perhaps nervous ous perhaps physical more likely both For gone gune to pot put Is lf synonymous with gone to pieces broken down down and and we might use other terms such as disintegrated disintegrated dis dis- integrated wreckage flotsam I While It may have hove appeared at first firstI I sight to be rather obscure the metaphor meta I Is obvious when It Is pointed out that the allusion Is to the receptacle Into which worthless and oud discarded odds find and ends are ore thrown thrown the the things that have gone to to pieces The expression Is a n very old one Its Us first recorded use being traced back ns as far as os 1581 1551 In Nat Not Woodes' Woodes Conflict of ot Conscience ft Ob 1131 1932 Dell Bell Syndicate WN Service |