Dear Ruth,
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.
No - they can go south here, be said to have gone west, and even be
sold down the river! Our language is becoming so corrupt that the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Angel Skubic
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When a business Goes out of
Business it is sort of dead as a doornail too so it is sort of related to
that side of the definition. However, when I think about it, when your boobs
go south they are really on their last legs