went broke

There used to be a rubber estate there, but the company went broke and it was abandoned.

The poor fellow went broke because his wife was always trying to keep up with the Joneses.

During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke (= had to stop doing business).

I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.

Before he went broke, running a harness shop, there were always a lot of men loafing in the shop.

But investors may be overlooking one timeless principle: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public.

I nearly went broke trying to convince her I was anything but.

Mencken once declared that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the great American public" .

He's an American from Kentucky who later got into the railroad business and went broke.

During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke .

But the mo mentum from that car wasn't sustained, and the company went broke.

He got rich and went broke three times before finally committing suicide in 1940.

No one ever went broke overestimating the capacity of the US Congress to screw things up.

During the recent economic crisis, many businessmen went broke.

However, this is naive greed, because, as the saying goes, "no one ever went broke from taking a profit. "

The inventor went broke because nobody would buy his machine.

Mr. Lin's company went broke due to the recession.

Unfortunately, the shop went broke and closed.

By making bold promises, he eventually went broke.

A lot of small businesses went broke during the recession.

He has been down and out ever since his company went broke.

In fact, he went broke last week.

I went broke betting money on the horse races.

i went broke , " he put it bluntly" .

I did that twice, and I went broke.

Last year, his company went broke and he lost his job.