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.

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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? Woodcliff Lake by Codini, Ned / U.S. Catholic The NATO troops stayed in their barracks watching buildings just a few hundred meters from their base go up in flames. UN, NATO permitted Kosovo rampage by The New American By year's end, another 5 million acres would go up in flames. Wildfires in the West. (Top News of 2002: June) by Junior Scholastic More results

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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?

Woodcliff Lake by Codini, Ned / U.S. Catholic

The NATO troops stayed in their barracks watching buildings just a few hundred meters from their base go up in flames.

UN, NATO permitted Kosovo rampage by The New American

By year's end, another 5 million acres would go up in flames.

Wildfires in the West. (Top News of 2002: June) by Junior Scholastic

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go up in flames
go up in smoke
go west
go whole hog
go with a bang
go with a swing
go with gut
go with the flow

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