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go broke
Idioms and Phrases
Also, go bust . Undergo financial collapse, lose most or all of one's money. For example, The company's about to go broke , or The producer of that movie went bust . The first expression dates from the mid-1600s; the second, slangier variant dates from the mid-1800s.Example Sentences
"At least back home in Nigeria, if you go broke, I can find my sister or my parents and go and eat free food. It's not the same here. You will go hungry."
“Go broke or go to jail,†Super said.
So it wasn’t an escape for me so much as a possible option for Los Angeles, except that we’d go broke hiring consultants, and it wouldn’t be clear who is in charge once we’re all living in a giant bunker under the Santa Monica Mountains.
Sheinbaum must walk a fine line between her constituents, who don’t want to see Mexico humiliated — or go broke — and the unpredictable, impetuous Trump.
Some said "Go woke, go broke".
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