VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Go Down in Flames

Meaning:

Fail in a spectacular way

Examples:

  • And if we go down in flames, so be it!
  • Most of them will go down in flames.
  • Aye, we might as well go down in flames.
  • I might as well go down in flames.
  • As your best friend, I cannot, in good conscience, watch you go down in flames anymore.
  • I've put too much into this to sit on the sidelines in the final week of the election and watch it go down in flames.