"toes up" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From “toes” + “up”, in reference to a corpse lying on its back.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1862, Charles James Lever, Davenport Dunn, page 119:",
          "text": "Groves, of the Forty-sixth, is gone \"toes up\".",
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      "glosses": [
        "dead, killed"
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        "(idiomatic, slang, of a person) dead, killed"
      ],
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        "of a person"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mo Hayder, The devil of Nanking, page 42:",
          "text": "The land deals in Tokyo've gone toes up since the bubble burst, but the landlord's still trying to push through a deal with a developer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "broken, completely failed so as to become inactive"
      ],
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        [
          "broken",
          "broken"
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        [
          "failed",
          "failed"
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          "inactive",
          "inactive"
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        "(idiomatic, slang) broken, completely failed so as to become inactive"
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable",
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  "word": "toes up"
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  "etymology_text": "From “toes” + “up”, in reference to a corpse lying on its back.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Groves, of the Forty-sixth, is gone \"toes up\".",
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      "glosses": [
        "dead, killed"
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          "killed",
          "killed"
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        "(idiomatic, slang, of a person) dead, killed"
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        }
      ],
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        "broken, completely failed so as to become inactive"
      ],
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          "broken"
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          "failed",
          "failed"
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          "inactive"
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        "(idiomatic, slang) broken, completely failed so as to become inactive"
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "toes-up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toes up"
}