Question of the Day #961

Assessing Liverpool’s run-in: Diaz key and Klopp should go for broke – but away form a worry

From the headline of this article at The Athletic.

  上記の文で、go for brokeの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "go for broke" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

いちかばちかやってみる、全力で立ち向かう

「いちかばちかやってみる」はいいと思いますが、「全力で立ち向かう」だけではこのイディオムの大事な「すべてを賭けて」の意味が欠けているので不十分です。
   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary

to risk everything in the hope of having great success

   

Examples

• It was a sharp disagreement about whether to go for broke or whether to compromise.
• But then just as you expect him to go for broke, to over-reach, to crash and burn, he pulls back. Times, Sunday Times (2018)
• They agreed to go for broke in the heart-wrenching final act. Times, Sunday Times (2011)
• Realizing that they would be out of the competition if they lost this match, the players went for broke.
• If you decide to go for broke, you can’t be thinking about what will happen if you fail.

   

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