go by the board

phrasal

1. : to go or be carried by force over the side of a ship

in the storm the masts went by the board

2. : to go or be thrown into discard : be passed by and beyond recall

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go by the board

1. To go over the side of a ship

2. To be discarded or ignored

3. To meet disaster

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Main Entry: ↑board

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go by the board british phrase

if a plan, idea, or activity goes by the board, it is stopped or forgotten

Our plans to expand went by the board for lack of funding.

Thesaurus: to fail, or to stop being successful_synonym

Main entry: board

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(of something planned or previously upheld) be abandoned, rejected, or ignored

my education just went by the board

Origin:

earlier in nautical use meaning ‘fall overboard’, used of a mast falling past the board, i.e., the side of the ship

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go by the board (or US go by the boards)

: to no longer be used or considered : to be discarded, rejected, or abandoned

Many of his original theories have gone by the board in recent years as new evidence has accumulated.

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Main Entry: ↑board

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ˌgo by the ˈboard idiom

(BrE) (of plans or principles) to be rejected or ignored; to be no longer possible

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All her efforts to be polite went by the board and she started to shout.

Main entry: ↑board_idiom