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The investment was not a good idea and it did very poorly on the market and it was a disaster.

So this is a great option for when you really want to emphasize that a stock price or a company's profits, some number goes down really rapidly.

You can say that it tanks, it tanked.

So how was the trip to Vegas?

Did you have a good time?

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.