| 词汇 | go up in smoke |
| 释义 | go up in smokego up in smoke a) if something goes up in smoke, it burns so that it is completely destroyed 彻底焚毁，烧光 The whole factory went up in smoke. 整座工厂付之一炬。 b) informalFAIL if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it fails or you cannot continue with it 〔计划等〕化为泡影，化为乌有 We haven’t worked this long just to see everything go up in smoke. 我们干了这么长时间，可不想看到一切都化为乌有。 Examples from the Corpus go up in smoke• After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.• For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.• That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.• If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?• Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.• Its mosque went up in smoke.• Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke.• Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many. → go up in smoke at smoke1(1) |
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