Examples of 'go up in flames' in a sentence

Meaning of "go up in flames"

This phrase is used to describe a situation where something is destroyed or ruined completely, often in a sudden or dramatic way. It implies a catastrophic or disastrous outcome. The phrase can be used metaphorically to describe the failure or collapse of a plan, relationship, or event
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  • To catch fire.
  • To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.

How to use "go up in flames" in a sentence

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go up in flames
This house could go up in flames any minute.
I go up in flames and the scent of you makes me.
I saw my best friends go up in flames before my eyes.
My entire reproductive system is about to go up in flames.
The apartment will go up in flames while we are sleeping.
The whole engineering plant could go up in flames.
This place can go up in flames at any given moment.
One wrong move and we all go up in flames.
You go up in flames so easily and get offended and aggravated.
Too much sex and you go up in flames.
Could go up in flames again.
I did not me for her whole car to go up in flames.
This could go up in flames in seconds.
I thought the whole mine was gonna go up in flames.
Go up in flames thousands of times.

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Lucky the whole house did not go up in flames.
This stupid town will go up in flames and everybody will go poof.
Talk about watching your childhood go up in flames.
I go up in flames like a vampire.
One spark and you will go up in flames.
Then go up in flames.
Do not let your hard work go up in flames.
If we go up in flames.
Obama fears his legacy will go up in flames.
Did not go up in flames.
He did not want to see the house go up in flames.
He will go up in flames.
It is only our economy that will go up in flames.
All the evidence will go up in flames when Zoormagian does his bit.
I felt every single nerve ending go up in flames.
Tonnes of aid go up in flames after Israeli artillery shells hit a UN compound.
He was heartbroken to see the building go up in flames.
Star City go up in flames.
I do not think ten more hovels will go up in flames.
Till you see us go up in flames like dying stars ♪.
The outpost we hit last night will go up in flames.
All the clues go up in flames in the fires, so we need eyewitnesses.
Your looks made water to go up in flames.
He would rather go up in flames than be plunged into darkness again!
This whole block is about to go up in flames.
Only to see it go up in flames like Pete's eyebrow.
I did not mean for the whole car to go up in flames.
Watch my entire livelihood go up in flames with no safeguard for my future?
The powerful explosion causes the nightclub to go up in flames.
They shall go up in flames.
I wish this whole mountain of files would go up in flames.
You caused my vineyard to go up in flames like the spires of Notre-Dame.
A passenger on the train saw it go up in flames.
Or let this whole place go up in flames like a Nazi zeppelin. Fly with me.
One more move and everything will go up in flames.

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