📚 Go belly up, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Go bankrupt. ❗️ Examples: 1. The company was about to go belly up. 2. Let me switch gears, because we only have a short time left, to talk about this Enron, this energy company that just went belly up, went bankrupt, causing a lot of pain for workers, their investors. 3. If they went belly up, bankrupt, shut down, and can't take their cruise ships out of port you would be there holding your bags quite literally and an expensive but useless ticket for your cruise. 4. After Nadia got the sack from her employers who went belly up as Americans call bankruptcy, she applied to ‘zillions’ of tech firms all over America. 5. However, it is doubtful whether the bank could practice this expansion for too long since it runs the risk of not being able to clear its checks and thus go belly up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic