go up in smoke
Verb
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Verb
- To catch fire and burn.
- (idiomatic, by extension) To be completely ruined.
- When the bank refused the credit, all our plans went up in smoke.
- (be ruined) come to nothing, go up in flames
- French: partir en fumée
- Italian: andare in fumo
- Russian: загоре́ться
- Russian: вылете́ть в трубу́
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