go broke

Idioms and Phrases

Also, go bust . Undergo financial collapse, lose most or all of one's money. For example, The company's about to go broke , or The producer of that movie went bust . The first expression dates from the mid-1600s; the second, slangier variant dates from the mid-1800s.

Example Sentences

“But he’s one of the most effective presidents we’ve had since Roosevelt or at least since Johnson. Trump’s an authoritarian. Why would anyone want to live in that bleakness? Republicans have brought on seven of the last eight recessions. I don’t want to go broke.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Go woke go broke,” one user on Facebook commented on news of the changes.

From Los Angeles Times

I could go broke buying books explaining different ways to interpret the Constitution.

From Slate

I’ll save that aspect for another column, because as I’ve already reported, in one of the great unanswered crises of our time, millions of people either can’t find care as they age, or they can’t afford it, or they go broke paying for it.

From Los Angeles Times

We saw a foreshadowing of how the AI companies would respond to copyright concerns at large last year, when famed venture capitalist and AI evangelist Marc Andreessen’s firm argued that AI companies would go broke if they had to pay copyright royalties or licensing fees.

From Los Angeles Times

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