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go bust
fail financially
If a business goes bust, it cannot pay its debts and closes.
This vs that
The restaurant went bust.
The restaurant closed down.
Hear it in real life
Is that café still open?
No, it went bust during the pandemic.
Several small shops went bust when rents rose sharply.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
Go bust is the natural everyday way to describe a business failing financially.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The company went to bust last year.
Say: The company went bust last year.
Use go bust without to.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
go bust; a business/company goes bust
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about business.
break even
The shop should break even by the end of the year.
meet demand
The factory is struggling to meet demand.
Business words
Work · Business: the words around “go bust”.
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Compare it
Where this one sits next to the phrases it gets mixed up with.
Your turn: say it out loud
The company went bust.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
go bust
fail financially
“Several small shops went bust when rents rose sharply.”
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