going up in flames
Catching fire disastrously
Going up in flames means being destroyed by fire, or figuratively, failing spectacularly and suddenly.
A building goes up in flames when it burns; a career goes up in flames when it collapses dramatically: His political ambitions went up in flames after the scandal.
The phrase emphasizes swift, total destruction.
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- blazeIntense burning fire
- ashCombustion's powdery remains
- reduced to ashesBurned until nothing remains
- burningCombustion in progress
burning building · heat · downfall · fire · fire hazard · engulfed · glow · consumed · smoke · up in smoke · meltdown · crash and burn · dumpster fire · ruin · roar · conflagration · catastrophe · collapse
going up in flamessurviving
Remaining alive or intact
enduring · holding together · withstanding · weathering the storm · pulling through
going up in flamessucceeding
Attaining aims or following
thriving · flourishing · taking off · coming together · working out
going up in flamescooling down
Gradual temperature reduction
fizzling out · dying down · cooling off · petering out · simmering
going, goes, gone, goers, upwards, uppermost, inner, inwards, flame