go for broke

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go for broke (informal)

to risk everything in order to achieve the result you want. She decided to go for broke and pursue her acting career full-time.

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If you're going to be the "out" party in Congress for yet another two years, then it's time to finally reject the prerogatives of institutional power and go for broke on a platform of redistricting reform, ethics reform, lobbying reform, and campaign-finance reform. Enough with the fratricide by Kilgore, Ed / Washington Monthly Go for broke at $20 an ounce for a cut of the finest beef on the planet, the true Japanese 100 percent Wagyu beef from Kujisawa Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. PUCK'S PLACE TRULY A CUT ABOVE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) But he insists that he's not letting his students simply go for broke. On fads and fundamentals: jazz dance teachers share their perspectives by Voedisch, Lynn / Dance Magazine More results

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If you're going to be the "out" party in Congress for yet another two years, then it's time to finally reject the prerogatives of institutional power and go for broke on a platform of redistricting reform, ethics reform, lobbying reform, and campaign-finance reform.

Enough with the fratricide by Kilgore, Ed / Washington Monthly

Go for broke at $20 an ounce for a cut of the finest beef on the planet, the true Japanese 100 percent Wagyu beef from Kujisawa Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.

PUCK'S PLACE TRULY A CUT ABOVE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

But he insists that he's not letting his students simply go for broke.

On fads and fundamentals: jazz dance teachers share their perspectives by Voedisch, Lynn / Dance Magazine

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