belly-up ['beli'ʌp]
adj.
失败的,破产的, 死的
belly-up[ adj ]
financially ruined
<adj.all>
a bankrupt companythe company went belly-up
belly up \bel"ly up`\, belly-up \bel"ly-up`\, a. [from analogy
to the position of a floating dead fish.]
defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial
organizations; often used in the phrase
{go belly-up}, i. e. to go bankrupt.
[PJC]
- France called out the army Saturday to help clean up about 80 tons of dead fish floating belly-up in the Seine, apparent victims of river pollution following severe rainstorms.
- A T-shirt featuring a belly-up bull is being sold in honor of the Oct. 19. stock market crash by No More Bull Partners, Greenwich, Conn.
- Haas Securities went belly-up after the crash because it no longer had the capital to stay in business.
- Investors have been rewarded for this risk; hence the high risk/return score. Martin Currie International's calamity was to have been exposed to Latin America when the Bolsa turned belly-up, and its 1991 record suffers as a result.
- The front page banner headline said: "Clements says FSLIC will go 'belly-up.'"