I'll be interested to hear whether anyone else out here has other ideas, but the only expression I've heard in Australia is that a business "goes bust".
No - they can "go south" here, be said to have "gone west", and even be "sold down the river"! Our language is becoming so corrupt that the Northern Territorians have even been heard to refer to those south of the border as "Mexicans"! They also used to call tourists "terrorists" but that's probably changed now.
David in Ballarat
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia, where seemingly half the population has coughs and colds...but after all, is is winter here!)
Linda Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dear Lacemakers,
(snip) > > When a business "Goes out of > >Business" it is sort of "dead as a doornail" too so it is sort of related to > >(snip) > > Out of curiosity, do such things go north in the southern hemisphere? > --
where I come from, (the northern part of Lancashire, U.K.), the expression is that the business "went West".
Linda Walton, (who has a bad cold), in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
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