go bust
verb1
To become bankrupt.
- Several thousand companies go bust in the UK each year.
- Steam gave a last hurrah for some, but North British went bust in 1962, unable to make the transition to modern traction.2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 50:
1 more example
- It is not difficult to believe [...] that if an extra pat of butter were given on any one morning to each of the five hunderd boys the school would (to use their elegant expression) go bust!1904, F. D. How, Six Great Schoolmasters, London: Methuen, page 235:
- Synonyms
- go bankrupt, go under, go belly-up