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Verb: go to the wall
Usage: informal
  1. Fail utterly; collapse
    "The project went to the wall";
    - fall through, fall flat, founder, flop, come to nothing

Derived forms: goes to the wall, went to the wall, gone to the wall, going to the wall

See also: fall

Type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry