Going to the Dogs? A Contrastive Analysis of S.th. is Going to the Dogs and jmd./etw. geht vor die Hunde¹Thanks to all of my colleagues who have read and commented on earlier versions of this paper, especially to Christiane Fellbaum, Patrick Hanks, and Undine Kramer. I also want to thank Paul Bogaards who has made valuable comments. I have used the following corpora: the extended DWDS Corpus (around 980 million words), the British National Corpus (around 100 million words) and the Associated Press Corpus (around 150 million words; courtesy of Patrick Hanks) as well as data from the Google Groups. Example sentences from the Google Groups were used because both BNC and Associated Press Corpus did not contain a sufficient number of occurrences of the idiom to allow general statements. Possible differences between BrE and AmE had to be ignored.