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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.
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"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."

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“Go broke or go to jail,†Super said.

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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.

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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.

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Some said "Go woke, go broke".

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