Go up in flames


verb phrase

To be ruined; be destroyed: He just saw his beautiful scam go up in smoke (1933+)
Also, go up in smoke. Be utterly destroyed, as in This project will go up in flames if the designer quits, or All our work is going up in smoke. This idiom transfers a fire to other kinds of destruction. [ Early 1900s ]

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