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What does go up in flames mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.
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The only guarantee that Bosnia or Kosovo, or the entire Balkans for that matter, will not go up in flames again tomorrow.
Young J: The offices did not go up in flames, but the journalists are really feeling the heat.
The western part of the city in particular has been constantly pounded by Russian artillery, and factories and apartment blocks go up in flames after air raids.
The body of Leclair was recognizable because of his long beard, which miraculously did not go up in flames.
If, heaven forbid, his home and studio were to go up in flames, after his beloved wife what would he save?
Incadescent sculpture is putting on a bed of wood shavings and go up in flames.

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