Idioms for tank

    go in/into the tank, Boxing Slang. to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
    in the tank, Slang.
    1. failing, doing poorly, or declining: His grades were in the tank last quarter.
    2. favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for): The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.

Origin of tank

1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (< Vulgar Latin *stanticāre) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)

OTHER WORDS FROM tank

tank·less, adjective tank·like, adjective

Words nearby tank

tanizaki jun-ichiro, tanjore, tanjungkarang, tanjungpandan, tanjungpriok, tank, tank car, tank destroyer, tank engine, tank farm, tank farming

British Dictionary definitions for go into the tank

tank
/ (tæŋk) /

noun

verb

See also tank up

Derived forms of tank

tankless, adjective tanklike, adjective

Word Origin for tank

C17: from Gujarati tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre (unattested) to block, stanch

Idioms and Phrases with go into the tank

tank