go blooey
go blooey
slang To go completely awry; to totally fail. Plans for the gala went blooey after our chief donor backed out and took his millions with him. We really needed to regroup after our meeting with the CEO went blooey. Our project officially went blooey as soon as budgets were slashed across the company.
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go blooey
and go flooey (go ˈblui and go ˈflui) in. to fall apart; to go out of order. All my plans went blooey because of the rain. I just hope everything doesn’t go flooey at the last minute.
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In this new world of laissez-faire, when things
go blooey, the government itself is exposed to risk alongside hapless investors--if the commercial banks are lending federally insured deposits along with their own investment plays or are exercising what amounts to an equity position in the failed management.
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