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go up in smoke

verb

Definitions

  1. To catch fire and burn.

  2. To be completely ruined, devastated, or reduced to nothingness.

    • Near-synonym: evaporate
    • When the bank refused the credit, all our plans went up in smoke.
    • There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke

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