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turn belly up

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turn belly up and go belly up 
1. Sl to fail. (See also turn turtle.)—I sort of felt that the whole thing would go belly up, and I was right. The computeron its last legs anywayturned belly up right in the middle of an important job.
2. Sl. to die. (As a fish does when it dies.) The cat was acting strangely for a while before she turned belly up. Every fish in Greg's tank went belly up last night.
See also: belly, turn, up


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