Indiana

Oh, no.

Did you win anything?

Ouch.

Remind me never to go gambling with you.

Okay.

So here, instead of a financial investment, we see the idiom lose your shirt used between friends talking about gambling.

So when you make a pretty bad gambling decision, you spend $500 and you're going to the blackjack table and you keep going even though you probably shouldn't and you lose all that money, you might say, wow, I really lost my shirt at the blackjack tables.

Yeah.

Yeah, I cannot imagine myself doing this, but this would be the perfect scenario to use this idiom.

For sure.

So the word belly is another word for stomach.

It sounds a little bit cuter, I think, or like colloquial, like a friendly way to say stomach, like tummy and belly.

These are some other options for stomach.

And go belly up so you can imagine, okay, your belly is going up.

This idiom comes from the image of a dead fish floating upside down in water.

Its belly is facing up towards the sky.

And this symbolism is used for describing a business or a project that completely fails, goes bankrupt, just does not work, and basically dies, is the idea behind this expression.

So you could say that a failed business, you could say it went belly up.

So you're getting that image of an animal like a fish dying and showing its stomach, uh,

Pretty gross image, but it works.