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burn your bridges to permanently and unpleasantly end your relationship with a person or organization. Welles had burned his bridges so badly with the movie studios that they laughed when you mentioned his name. Etymology: based on the military action of burning a bridge you have just crossed to prevent the enemy from crossing it after you |
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Manage termination of accounts professionally--don't burn bridges when an account is terminated. It makes no sense to do things to burn bridges at the beginning of a long process,'' Curran said. The editor of Anti-Gay, a book that caused a firestorm of controversy in the United Kingdom when it was published in 1996, Simpson has the distinction of being both hated and respected (in Queen he jokingly worries that the book, meant to burn bridges, instead ignited a new brand of gay lifestyle). |
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