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Belly-up   /bˈɛli-əp/   Listen
Belly-up

adjective
1.
Financially ruined.  Synonym: bankrupt.  "The company went belly-up"





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"Belly-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... pull of the line it gave a single convulsive jump. But after waiting a moment or two, Captain Rogers commanded the windlass to be manned again. Slowly the line came in and, after a time, the huge, inert, flabby body floated, belly up, just off ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster


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