English Dictionary

go by the board

verb

(idiomatic, nautical) To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship. / (idiomatic) To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.

All my plans for the weekend go by the board when I got sick.

意味（1）

(idiomatic, nautical) To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.

How many cups of tea I drank, because Dora made it, I don’t know. But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board.