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to go to the wall
01
ir à falência, quebrar de vez
to suffer ruin, failure, or defeat, due to financial difficulties, and without the possibility of recovery or rescue
Dialect
British
British![to [go] to the wall definition and meaning](https://cdn.langeek.co/photo/41768/original/?type=jpeg "to [go] to the wall definition and meaning")
idiom
Exemplos
The once successful restaurant faced fierce competition and eventually went to the wall, unable to attract enough customers to sustain itself.
A companhia aérea foi à falência após anos de grandes prejuízos.
02
to do everything that one is capable of in order to do or achieve something
Dialect
American
AmericanExemplos
He went to the wall to defend his beliefs.
