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So in this dialogue between a couple of managers at a company, you hear this expression go belly up about another company in the same industry because their sales had been dropping for many years and they eventually decided to file for bankruptcy.

So these managers use this expression to describe this closing business.

The other company went belly up.

I think you really would often hear this expression in a business context or in the news, just like our other expression, to lose your shirt.

You might see this in a headline like business goes belly up after 10 years or something like that.

I think you could see this, hear this a lot in the news or in these business conversations.

So it's a good one to keep an ear out for, I think.

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It's going well.

I've been very productive this week, and I've got a lot done, so I'm feeling good about that.

How are you doing, Andrew?

Absolutely.

To make short work of something.

To make short work of something.

So this expression refers to completing a task or something in a very short amount of time.

Thus, we have this word short in it.

So to make short work of something, the amount of time you expected that it would take is actually much shorter.

Easy to remember, work, the work was short.

But we don't only have to use this expression with work tasks.

We could use it for chores, household chores, or perhaps even finishing a meal.