belly-up

ADJECTIVE
  1. financially ruined
    a bankrupt company
    the company went belly-up
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How To Use belly-up In A Sentence

  • To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
  • There are many reasons why IBM nearly went belly-up, not least the fact that Big Blue had become a bureaucratic monster.
  • Just a thought about the FDIC and your bank account: There used to be something called the FSLIC, which got depleted when the Savings and Loans were deregulated andwent belly-upon risky investments in the 1980s. Depression Enters Phase Two
  • She arrived at 17, "extraordinary of my parents to let me", and after the Colonels took over Greece and her father's business "went belly-up", worked six days a week in the Mayfair Hotel as a room-service telephonist to pay for her O and A-levels: "It was rather fun," she says. Vicky Pryce: 'I thought we were a unit'
  • When I kill cockroaches using an aerosol spray, they invariably die belly-up.
  • A Don Knotts stereotype, he was the nation's youngest mayor in 1977 when Cleveland went belly-up because he wouldn't cut enough to balance the budget-thus giving the word "callow" a bad connotation …. Tom Roeser
  • Well, it's not like the Dallas area wasn't without the "largish" mid-size cons like these for a few years, after Bulldog Productions and, by extension, their Dallas Fantasy Fair cons went belly-up. Mid-Sized Comic Cons – What Impact Do They Have on the Comic Industry? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • the company went belly-up
  • In the past 10 years, the Alley has endured the triple asteroid strikes of an exploding Internet Bubble, the 9/11 terror attacks and the financial crisis. Thousands of firms went belly-up.
  • And I have a cohost, Sara Switzer, who's my writer - we'd been doing this show [SANDRAdio] on the Internet for nine months, until the company went belly-up.
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