• to be on one's last legs
• concourse, crowd, press, rout, throng, tumult
• to become bankrupt, to go into liquidation, to go smash
• to go bust, to turn out crabs
• to fuck up, to turn out crabs
• receiver, trustee in bankruptcy
• trusteeship in bankruptcy
• their failure would swamp me
• to mass, to mob, to rout, to throng