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go to the wall

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go to the wall
if a business or other organization goes to the wall, it fails and cannot continue. After nine months of massive losses, the company finally went to the wall. In theory, good schools will grow and prosper and bad schools will go to the wall.
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go to the wall
to be defeated or destroyed. They believe in a completely free market, and would let the weakest groups or individuals go to the wall.
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go to the wall (for someone/something)
to do as much as is possible. Friends and colleagues were ready to go to the wall for Hal, but he didn't want anyone's help.
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You leave your good father, my dear, in hands as earnest and as loving as your own; he shall be taken every conceivable care of; during the next fortnight, while you are in Warwickshire and thereabouts, even Tellson's shall go to the wall (comparatively speaking) before him.
 
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