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Indiana

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Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

Indeed.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

Yeah, I saw the report this morning.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

Looks like they're going to file for bankruptcy.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

It's a pretty good opportunity for us, though.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

We might be able to pick up some of their clients.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

The other company went belly up.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

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

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #291 – English Idiom: What Does ‘Belly Up’ Mean?

Bye.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

It's going well.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

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

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

How are you doing, Andrew?

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

Absolutely.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

To make short work of something.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

To make short work of something.

Culips Everyday English Podcast
Catch Word #290 – Make short work of it

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