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go belly-up
Idioms and Phrases
Fail, go bankrupt, as in This company's about to go belly-up . This expression alludes to the posture of a dead fish in the water. [ Slang ; early 1900s] Also see go broke .Example Sentences
He’d given Chastain his first big breaks, only to have a sponsorship deal go belly-up.
Many states require companies to plug wells that are tapped out and to post bonds in case they go belly-up, but those bonds don’t cover the cost.
Many states require companies to plug wells that are out of production and to post bonds in case they go belly-up.
As far back as 2014, when Caesars Entertainment closed the Showboat and the Atlantic Club amid a severe slowdown that saw four casinos go belly-up, then-chairman Gary Loveman none-too-subtly indicated that Bally’s was in danger of meeting a similar end, telling The Associated Press, “We need to make money there.”
Readers like Gardner know what they’d lose if their community papers go belly-up.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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