倾家荡产

倾家荡产 [qīng jiā dàng chǎn]

1. ■ dissipate one's fortune; become bankrupt; bring the family to ruin; family ruined and its property all lost; has risked the ruin [destruction] of one's family and the loss of one's fortune; lose a family fortune; lose all one's property; make sb. bankrupt; reduced to poverty and ruin; ruin one's family and dissipate one's fortune; run through one's fortune; spend one's entire fortune (to do); spend one's whole fortune (on); squander inherited property and ruin the family; whittle away one's family fortune