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be burnt to a crisp (mainly British, mainly American) to be very burnt. By the time I remembered the pizza was in the oven, it was burnt to a crisp. See also: burnt burn something to a crisp to burn something very badly. He burned the sausages to a crisp. I played a little golf yesterday and my neck got burned to a crisp. See also: burn |
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The potted plants and decorative trees that have made their way into my many apartments have known the perils of over-watering and drought, burned to a crisp in sunny windows or dying of jaundice in dark corners. That's a far cry from what happened in Minghella's best-known film, ``The English Patient,'' where illicit lovers played by Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes wound up wasting away in a desert cave and burned to a crisp, respectively. Unfortunately, he lost the place the day before Thanksgiving, when an art gallery above it caught fire and the whole building was burned to a crisp. |
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