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go for broke

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go for broke
to risk everything; to try as hard as possible. Okay, this is my last chance. I'm going for broke. Look at Mary starting to move in the final hundred yards of the race! She is really going for broke.
See also: broke

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.
See also: broke

go for broke
to risk everything and try as hard as possible to achieve something You can't possibly go for broke if you're afraid of what might happen if you don't succeed.
Related vocabulary: go all out
See also: broke


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