Your plumber's failed diet may drive people round the bend.

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For further confusion, or maybe smiles, combine the saying with another one:
The plumbers futile attempts to loose weight went down the drain, belly up.![]()
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Your plumber's failed diet may drive people round the bend.
This expression is not really used very commonly anymore in daily spoken English anymore. You're more likely to see it in print, I think. Another similar one is the use of the word 'bust,' which means to go broke or to fail financially. For instance one might say, 'the dot come boom went bust.'
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I would say it is most common in relation to business. Its very common to hear that something has gone belly up. If you work in investment banking etc they have a whole raft of such expressions. You could say it's walked south for example. North and South being up and down on a compass and the direction the stock price has moved. I always assumed belly up referred to death. In the old cowboy movies they always seemed to land on thier backs after being shot in a gun fight.
If I start teaching here in the U.K, it is sure to go belly up.
go belly up (informal) to fail completely: Last year the business went belly up after one of the partners resigned.
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BELLY UP:To approach closely
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I'm an American, and I feel really bad that I messed this up! Ugh
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