Idiom
belly up
Meaning
Dead or defunct.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old computer finally went belly up yesterday.”
“After the company lost its biggest client, the entire business went belly up within a month.”
“The ambitious project went belly up when the investors withdrew their funding, leaving the team with nothing but empty promises.”
Examples
simple
“The old computer finally went belly up yesterday.”
contextual
“After the company lost its biggest client, the entire business went belly up within a month.”
complex
“The ambitious project went belly up when the investors withdrew their funding, leaving the team with nothing but empty promises.”
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