belly up
verb
- move towards
Wiktionary
adj
- Dead or defunct.
“After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.”
verb
- To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks.
“He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool.”
“Belly-up to the bar boys and have a drink with me, […]”
- To die; to fail or go out of business.
- To lay on the back with its belly up.