toes up

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,slang,of a person)dead,killed1862, Charles James Lever,Davenport Dunn, page119:Groves, of the Forty-sixth, is gone "toes up".; (idiomatic,slang)broken, completelyfailedso as to becomeinactive2005, Mo Hayder,The devil of Nanking, page42:The land deals in Tokyo've gonetoes upsince the bubble burst, but the landlord's still trying to push through a deal with a developer.

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