I'll be interested to hear whether anyone else out here has other ideas, but the only expression I've heard in Australia is that a business "goes bust".
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia, where seemingly half the population has coughs and colds...but after all, is is winter here!) Linda Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dear Lacemakers, (snip) > > When a business "Goes out of > >Business" it is sort of "dead as a doornail" too so it is sort of related to > >(snip) > > Out of curiosity, do such things go north in the southern hemisphere? > -- where I come from, (the northern part of Lancashire, U.K.), the expression is that the business "went West". Linda Walton, (who has a bad cold), in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K. http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
