| 释义 |
go to the wallinformal 1(Of a business) go out of business; fail: thousands of firms are expected to go to the wall this year...- They have excluded every car from the city centre, as a result any remaining small businesses have gone to the wall.
- The result of her incompetence has been that young drivers are being crucified and that business are going to the wall with thousands of jobs lost.
- So the longer that access to our expensive salmon rivers and classic Highland lochs remains closed then the more fishing hotels, tackle shops and other small rural businesses will go to the wall.
Synonyms fail, collapse, go bankrupt, become insolvent, go into receivership, go into liquidation, crash, fold (up), go under, founder, be ruined, cave in informal go broke, go bust, go bump, go belly up, come a cropper, flop 2Support someone or something, no matter what the cost to oneself: the tendency for poets to go to the wall for their beliefs...- Notwithstanding their bravado, my guess is that the Democrats fear they will be the political losers if they go to the wall for the principle that a minority should be able to block a judicial nominee from receiving a vote.
- No politician will ever claim to have won a seat by announcing that he would fight, to save the Scottish Chamber Orchestra or go to the wall for the National Gallery of Modern Art.
- It's a farmers' problem and while everyone should feel sorry for them, and give them a help out, we can't all go to the wall for them.
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