گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'go up in flames'

1 general:: Phrase(s): go up in flames [and] go up in smoke 1. Lit. to burn up completely. • The entire forest went up in flames! • The expensive house went up in smoke. 2. Fig. [for value or investment] to be lost suddenly and totally. • Everything we own has gone up in flames with the stock crash. • The entire investment went up in smoke.

2 general:: 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]