| 单词 | belly-up |
| 释义 | belly-up (once / 200328 pages) adj When a business goes belly-up, it's bankrupt. When you're belly-up, you're out of business. If you've ever had a goldfish, you probably noticed how it looked when it died: belly-up. The same term can be used for financial failures, like a store that goes out of business due to poor sales or a company that makes bad investments and has to fold. People use the term for other sorts of failures too: a sports team that misses the playoffs has gone belly-up. A failed dream has gone belly-up. Anything belly-up is finished. WORD FAMILYbelly-up USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, the billionaire businessman said claiming those losses allowed him to keep his real estate empire afloat when others went belly-up. Washington Times(Oct 03, 2016) The problem: The insurance co-ops created by the law have mostly gone belly-up. New York Times(Aug 29, 2016) No matter how many coal mines go belly-up, if promised benefits were set aside, those benefits would still be there. Washington Times(Aug 29, 2016) adj financially ruined the company went belly-up Syn bankrupt insolvent unable to meet or discharge financial obligations |
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