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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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