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go up in flames |
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go up in flames to fail or come to an end suddenly and completely. Final hopes of a pay settlement went up in flames yesterday after talks broke down. See also: flame |
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A sudden melancholy strikes you from nowhere as the paean of leaves majestically swells: is it your youth that's fleeing, winter approaching, or are you falling with the fall of nature, feeling your limbs go up in flames, your hair caught in this milky spray that drowns the heart? The NATO troops stayed in their barracks watching buildings just a few hundred meters from their base go up in flames. By year's end, another 5 million acres would go up in flames. |
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