Hi, Alexander -- on Nov 13 2020 at 14:23, you wrote:

AK> Why does "go south" mean something wrong?

This is a long story, best explained I think, at
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2006-12-26-0612260438-story.htm
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In brief, on most maps South is down so the correlation becomes "going down" =
"going South" = "going bad".  There are other possibilies .. let me know if you
can't access the link.

Cheers... Dallas

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