turn belly up

Water came rushing through the hatches as the boat turned belly up.

A few hours later a Japanese fishing trawler reported seeing a school of nearly a hundred gray whales suddenly turn belly up.

Why should he turn belly up an' scared just because some tinhorn thief wants what he has?

"I roared the loudest, and they turned belly up.

"If we're still around after the Confed turns belly up, probably we'll be taking orders from you," Sleel said.

With a final convulsive wriggle, the fish turned belly up and floated motionless in its crystal globe.

Suddenly, it vomited its last meal, turned belly up, and lay wallowing lifelessly in the gentle swell.

Instead of turning belly up, Clinton followed the golden rule of spin: When you're explaining, you're losing.

Twenty years ago, 75 fingerlings released in the Bronx River would have turned belly up and drifted downstream, pickled on contact with those waters.

Then his eyes turned belly up and his knees went south and Skeeter ended up carrying him out of the bell foundry, after all.

Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.

There was a gush of blood, the creature writhed convulsively for a few moments; and then, as Tarzan slipped from its back, it turned belly up and floated away; while the ape-man sank gently toward the floor of the lake, where Helen stood, wide-eyed and wondering, looking up at him.

And in New Orleans, near the last of May, fishes swam up out of the Mississippi River through the air, proceeded to "drown" in the air which inexplicably upheld them, and then turned belly up and floated placidly at an imaginary water level some fifteen feet above the pavements of the city.