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Go-for-broke
Go-for-broke
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To
wager
everything.
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(idiomatic) To try everything possible or do last thing possible in a final attempt.
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Origin of go-for-broke
From Hawaiian Pidgin
craps
slang, meaning “to wager everything on one roll”: one would be
broke
,
bankrupt
if one loses.
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Popularized by the movie Go for Broke! (1951), which is named for the 442nd Infantry Regiment’s unit motto.
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