Usually means: Fail financially; cease to exist.
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  1. go to the wall: Merriam-Webster
  2. go to the wall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go to the wall: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go to the wall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. go to the wall: Wiktionary
  6. go to the wall: Dictionary.com
  7. Go to the Wall: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Go to the Wall: The Word Detective
  9. go to the wall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. go to the wall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go to the wall: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go to the wall: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (go to the wall)

verb:  (idiomatic) To make an all-out effort.
verb:  (idiomatic) To fail, to run out of options. (especially of a business)
verb:  To be put aside or forgotten.
verb:  To take an extreme and determined position or measure.

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