as in to close
to come near or nearer
belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves
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So, basically, with everyone tiptoeing around Hill’s criminal case, Buddy is just bellying up to the ballot box and saying: Make this a referendum on me.
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Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
For an authentic diner experience, slide into a booth or belly up to the counter at Angelo’s Glassboro Diner.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
And Victoria Thomas, who served as the casting director for the filmmaker’s Once Upon a Time, Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, was in the process of coming on board and is said to have been making some initial outreach to actors when the effort went belly up.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
The disgraced fraudster was once worth as much as $26.5 billion, ranked the 25th richest person in America, until his crypto trading firm went belly up in 2022, crashing his fortune to basically nothing.
—Devin Sean Martin, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
For an authentic diner experience, slide into a booth or belly up to the counter at Angelo’s Glassboro Diner.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
And Victoria Thomas, who served as the casting director for the filmmaker’s Once Upon a Time, Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, was in the process of coming on board and is said to have been making some initial outreach to actors when the effort went belly up.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
The disgraced fraudster was once worth as much as $26.5 billion, ranked the 25th richest person in America, until his crypto trading firm went belly up in 2022, crashing his fortune to basically nothing.
—Devin Sean Martin, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Belly up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belly%20up. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.
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