gå i kvav

Etymology
Roughly, "go in suffocation." Perhaps related to an obsolete sense of as deep water, depths of the sea.

Verb

 * 1) to go down (sink)
 * 2)  to founder, to go under (collapse, fail, or the like)
 * 1)  to founder, to go under (collapse, fail, or the like)
 * 1)  to founder, to go under (collapse, fail, or the like)