belly up
Business has failed
Belly up describes something that has failed or gone bankrupt, like a dead fish floating with its belly facing upward: The company went belly up after six months.
To belly up to something is to approach it closely, especially a bar or counter: He bellied up to the bar and ordered a whiskey.
Legal status when insolvent
- insolventUnable to pay debts
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
foreclosure · receivership · creditors · debt · failed · defunct · shuttered · collapse
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolventUnable to pay debts
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
default · foreclosure · receivership · creditors · debt · failed · defunct · shuttered · collapse · closure
floating
Staying atop liquid
dead fish · carcass · upturned · bloated · motionless · stiff · perished · aquarium · goldfish · roadkill
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- bar culturebar counter, bar tab, bar tabs, bar stools, bar rail
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- business failurebankruptcy court, insolvency, liquidation, closure, shutdown
- pet posesloaf, sploot, sit, sitting, standing
- eating and drinkingeat, drink, chew, bite, swallow
belly upthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · solvent · alive · alive and kicking · profitable
belly upalive and kicking
Healthy and active
thriving · alive · vital · going strong · kicking
belly, embellish, bellies, embellishment, bellied, bellying, disembowel