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go bel·ly-up

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  1. go belly-upverb

    To die.

  2. go belly-upverb

    To fail or fold; especially, to close or shut down a business; to go out of business.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go belly-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go belly-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of go belly-up in a Sentence

  1. Pearse Doherty:

    The suggestion is that our regulation is a lot tighter and that is true for the banks but it is not true for the IFSC, we need a proper open debate about what kind of investment strategy do we want. There is no point doing this when things go belly up, if things go belly up, because that is what will happen.

  2. Liu Yonghao:

    Lots of firms have gone belly up very quickly because they can't get money from banks nor help from the government.

  3. Fred Pedreira:

    This guy, when I saw him, for a fast jet with the wheels down, I said, 'I think he's coming in too low,' then he was 90 degrees -- sideways -- and then he went belly-up into the house and it was a ball of fire. It was terrible.

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