go up in flames

基本解释

This project will go up in flames if the designer quits.
如果設計者放棄，這個項目就會完全失敗。
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Oy, did you see that bloody stunt car driver go up in flames? He must be sixes and sevens man!
你看見那個特技車手飛躍火焰了嗎？他一定是瘋了。
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Up to 100 percent of the volatile radioactive Cesium-137 content of the pools could go up in flames and smoke, to blow downwind over large distances.
多達100％的具有揮發性的放射性銫137可以隨著火苗和菸陞入空中，順著風被吹到很遠的地方。

If we do not win it, our health and economy will go up in flames.
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Are any of these banks in real trouble if their European counter parts go up in flames, or is this an overdone sell-off?
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From the art center he helped to create in South-Central Los Angeles, at the base of Simon Rodia's famous Watts Towers landmark art assembly, Noah Purifoy saw his neighborhood go up in flames.
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