Examples of 'gone up in smoke' in a sentence

Meaning of "gone up in smoke"

gone up in smoke: This expression means to fail or be completely destroyed, often referring to hopes, plans, or expectations that have come to nothing
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  • past participle of go up in smoke

How to use "gone up in smoke" in a sentence

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gone up in smoke
It must have gone up in smoke in the fire.
Your nuclear missiles have all gone up in smoke.
Having gone up in smoke of course.
The old man must have gone up in smoke.
Their camp has gone up in smoke and the herds have deserted the landscape.
Look she could not have gone up in smoke.
Or gone up in smoke like the Yank.
But all this has gone up in smoke today.
The opportunity for emotional attunement and understanding has gone up in smoke.
Which had just gone up in smoke.
I do not carry it around with me anymore Otherwise it would have gone up in smoke.
Those had all gone up in smoke.
I do not carry it around with me anymore Otherwise it might have gone up in smoke.
May have just gone up in smoke.
But that 's because the real murder weapon had already gone up in smoke.

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He must have gone up in smoke.
All this without counting the Transantiago buses gone up in smoke.
They are gone up in smoke.
Fourteen hundred billion dollars gone up in smoke.
Everything has gone up in smoke in Tomorrow belongs to us.
All the evidence has gone up in smoke.
My pride 's gone up in smoke I am the laughing stock of every joke.
Two years hard work gone up in smoke.
Any chance of Phoebe and Alice helping us has just gone up in smoke.
They have all gone up In smoke now.
I am guessing that the drawings may have gone up in smoke.
That 's gone up in smoke now.
And now all that seemed to have gone up in smoke.
It 's all gone up in smoke now.
All that he possessed had gone up in smoke.
Unfortunately, the court continues its activity, although some records have gone up in smoke.
She can not have gone up in smoke.
The argument that only right-wing “ moderate ” policies could guarantee victory has gone up in smoke.
That illusion has gone up in smoke.
Unfortunately, he did not know that they all had gone up in smoke.
And I nearly gone up in smoke.
If contact had been made, all our plans would have gone up in smoke.
His life has gone up in smoke!
In Europe, several thousand billion euros have also gone up in smoke.
My pride 's gone up in smoke.
Let me go where the bird idly dreams who 's gone up in smoke.
Many shops have gone up in smoke.
And you heard what monahan said in court yesterday . Have literally gone up in smoke.
A KBL Bus has gone up in smoke.
Worse still, however, the credibility of the euro area has gone up in smoke.
Pounds of flares and rockets… gone up in smoke to kill a groom.
It seemed that all I had worked for the past 25 years had gone up in smoke.
A life 's work gone up in smoke.
Then, Lupin… That's right. Your nuclear missiles have all gone up in smoke.
But all of that has gone up in smoke.

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