单词 | to go bust |
释义 | > as lemmasto go bust to go bust phr. 1. To become insolvent or bankrupt. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt to play (the) bankrupt1548 bankrupt1552 to take Ludgate1585 break1600 to go down the weather1611 to break the bank1623 to go to the right shop1655 to swallow a spider1670 to march off1683 to go off1688 to break up shop1712 bust1834 burst1848 to go up King Street1864 to go bust1875 to go under1882 to belly up1886 1875 P. E. Oudin Let. 11 Apr. in W. Wright Hist. Big Bonanza (1876) lii. 402 Pretty soon you hear one crash financial,—I gone bust—me ! 1913 R. Brooke Let. Aug. (1968) 499 The Blue Review has gone bust, through lack of support. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories iii. 154 Andy was at the lorry driving for a timber concern, but the owner went bust. 2008 Guardian 14 Feb. (Technol. section) 6/2 Companies go bust all the time. 2. Cards. In pontoon (blackjack): to lose by exceeding the score of twenty-one. ΚΠ 1926 M. Anderson & L. Stallings What Price Glory? iii, in 3 Amer. Plays 86 Remember, if you hold six cards without going bust you can empty the automatic at me. 1939 H. Phillips & B. C. Westall Compl. Bk. Card Games 195 Players who have gone ‘bust’, i.e. exceeded 21, will have forfeited their stakes automatically. 1964 Life 27 Mar. 87/2 The dealer went bust..and gave him $900. 2007 P. Olofsson Probabilities vii. 191 If you have at most 11, hitting is a no-brainer: as long as it is impossible to go bust, keep hitting. 3. Darts. To score more than the required number of points needed to reduce one's score to zero during a turn. ΚΠ ?1937 A. Wellington Darts 22 Going beyond nought is technically spoken of as going ‘bust’, and a player who has become involved in difficulties over an odd number towards the end of the game often goes ‘bust’ deliberately, if he does not fancy his chances of extricating himself favourably in any other way. 1975 I. L. Brackin & W. Fitzgerald All about Darts v. 70 It is considered bad darts manners to hurl your third dart into the board in a fit of pique after you have already gone bust. 1980 K. Turner Darts ii. 28 If a player scores too many, ‘going bust’, so that he more than wipes out his score, then his whole turn is ignored and he reverts to his previous score. 2014 Basingstoke Gaz. (Nexis) 7 Jan. Hogan took the next in slightly scrappy fashion, firing into the wrong bed to go bust at one stage before taking out double 18. < as lemmas |
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