go bust

idiom

informal
: to spend or lose all of one's money : to go broke
The company has gone bust.

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The Saints punt, giving Nix another chance. 2h ago / 5:25 PM PDT Copied Share Broncos go bust on first drive Andrew Greif The Broncos quarterback Bo Nix missed tight end Lucas Krull who was wide open on first down, then misfired on a roll-out pass on second down. Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024 Plenty more climate startups will go bust or be sold at a discount this year and next, venture investors tell Axios. Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024 The Dawn of Kicks Invented for a faddish game in the 1880s, tennis shoes became fashionable when manufacturers, fearing the tennis boom would go bust, pushed them off the lawn. JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 After seeing its last deal go bust in the face of regulatory scrutiny, Maze Therapeutics has found another suitor for its experimental Pompe disease treatment. Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for go bust 

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“Go bust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20bust. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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