英语词汇“go belly up”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

go belly up

1. To break or malfunction; to die, fall apart, or cease to work. ("Belly up" is sometimes hyphenated.) Sorry, Mark, I'd love to give you a lift to the airport, but my car has gone belly up on me again. The disk drive in my laptop went belly-up after the one too many drops on the ground.

2. By extension, to have a poor, undesired, or ruinous outcome; to fail completely or not come together at all. It looks like our co-op might be going belly-up if we aren't granted a license for our communal work premises. The merger deal between the two companies went belly-up when it came to light that one of the CEOs had been dodging tax obligations for several years.

go belly-up

Fail, go bankrupt, as in This company's about to go belly-up. This expression alludes to the posture of a dead fish in the water. [Slang; early 1900s] Also see go broke.

go belly-up

INFORMAL

COMMON If a company goes belly-up, it fails and does not have enough money to pay its debts. Factories and farms went belly-up because of the debt crisis. Note: This expression may refer to dead fish floating upside down near the surface of the water.

go belly up

go bankrupt. informal

The implied comparison is with a dead fish or other animal floating upside down in the water.

1998 Times: Weekend The single currency could well go belly-up within two or three years.

go belly ˈup

if a business or a project goes belly up, it fails: Everything started off well, but the business went belly up when one of the partners resigned.

This refers to a dead animal lying on its back or side with its belly (= stomach) facing upwards.

go belly up

verb

See turn belly up

go belly-up

Die; also, go bankrupt or otherwise fail. This slangy Americanism, which dates from the second half of the 1800s, initially referred to dead fish, which float in precisely that fashion. The transfer to humans as well as to inanimate objects, such as a business, took place in the early 1900s. It continues to be used in both senses, as in, “If those instruments fail, the astronauts will go belly-up” (that is, die), or as John Dos Passos put it in Chronicle (1920), “Labor’s belly up completely—The only hope is the I.W.W. [union].”

词汇	go belly up
释义	turn belly up and go belly up Theme: DEATH in. to die. (As a fish does when it dies.) The cat was friendly for a moment before she turned belly up.Every fish in Greg's tank went belly up last night. Theme: FAILURE in. to fail. I sort of felt that the whole thing would go belly up, and I was right.The computer— on its last legs anyway—turned belly up right in the middle of an important job. Idiom go belly up informal if a business goes belly up, it fails. Factories and farms went belly up because of the debt crisis. go belly up 1. To break or malfunction; to die, fall apart, or cease to work. ("Belly up" is sometimes hyphenated.) Sorry, Mark, I'd love to give you a lift to the airport, but my car has gone belly up on me again. The disk drive in my laptop went belly-up after the one too many drops on the ground. 2. By extension, to have a poor, undesired, or ruinous outcome; to fail completely or not come together at all. It looks like our co-op might be going belly-up if we aren't granted a license for our communal work premises. The merger deal between the two companies went belly-up when it came to light that one of the CEOs had been dodging tax obligations for several years. go belly-up Fail, go bankrupt, as in This company's about to go belly-up. This expression alludes to the posture of a dead fish in the water. [Slang; early 1900s] Also see go broke. go belly-up INFORMAL COMMON If a company goes belly-up, it fails and does not have enough money to pay its debts. Factories and farms went belly-up because of the debt crisis. Note: This expression may refer to dead fish floating upside down near the surface of the water. go belly up go bankrupt. informal The implied comparison is with a dead fish or other animal floating upside down in the water. 1998 Times: Weekend The single currency could well go belly-up within two or three years. go belly ˈup if a business or a project goes belly up, it fails: Everything started off well, but the business went belly up when one of the partners resigned. This refers to a dead animal lying on its back or side with its belly (= stomach) facing upwards. go belly up verb See turn belly up go belly-up Die; also, go bankrupt or otherwise fail. This slangy Americanism, which dates from the second half of the 1800s, initially referred to dead fish, which float in precisely that fashion. The transfer to humans as well as to inanimate objects, such as a business, took place in the early 1900s. It continues to be used in both senses, as in, “If those instruments fail, the astronauts will go belly-up” (that is, die), or as John Dos Passos put it in Chronicle (1920), “Labor’s belly up completely—The only hope is the I.W.W. [union].”
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