belly up

Previously they were general contractors until the economy went belly up in 2008.

Turn him belly-up and stroke him to sleep with your pointer finger.

First, some individual state markets may simply go belly up because not enough people, or the wrong demographic mix, signed up.

But how many municipal defaults have there been since Detroit went belly up?

The White House and Department of Energy made a bad investment on a company that went belly up.

The loathesome monster turned belly up, floating dead upon the surface of the swamp water.

A large fish floated on the water, belly up; fish washed ashore are used by the people as medicine.

The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.

Fill the other part with a plum-pudding; sew the belly up, and bake it.

This time Bill did not aim so much below and when he fired the fish came to the surface, belly up.