潰れる: 5 Terms and Phrases
- 潰れる
- to be smashed
- to become useless
- to cease functioning
- to go bankrupt
- 飲み潰れる
- to drink oneself drunk
- get dead drunk
- 酔い潰れる
- to drink oneself dead drunk
- to drink oneself unconscious
- ――無論、我々事務員は、みんなで二十七人もいたんですが、店が潰れると同時に、みんな散り散りばらばらになってしまいました。
- but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us.
- 当然過当競争状態であったが、関西鉄道はほとんど「やけくそ」で勝負していたようである（関西鉄道の社長は倒産も覚悟し、「どうせ潰れるなら官鉄を潰してから」といったと言われる）。
- It was excessive competition, and particularly the Kansai Railway Company was desperate to win (it is said that the president of Kansai Railway Company was prepared to close the company and once mentioned, 'We have to make sure that the company won't go bankrupt until after the Government Railway has').
