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What does go up in flames mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word go up in flames? Here's what it means.

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  1. (idiomatic) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.
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Young J: The offices did not go up in flames, but the journalists are really feeling the heat.
Fire blazed up in fury and the girl ran outside and watched the house she once lived in go up in flames.
We could also see that sugarcane did not go up in flames when lighted, whereas corn did.
The only guarantee that Bosnia or Kosovo, or the entire Balkans for that matter, will not go up in flames again tomorrow.
Incadescent sculpture is putting on a bed of wood shavings and go up in flames.
In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision.

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