Caroline Tran
2020-08-15 12:08
Go Down In Flames spoken language verb phrase
This idiom can be used figuratively and literally.
Our project went down in flames.
Our friendship went down in flames after a fight to the finish.
My grandfather usually told us his war story that when he was young he used to be a military pilot. In a battle his plane went down in flames, but he managed to eject and parachute safely to the ground.
The enemy's fighter planes went down in flames, which is a sign of ending the battle.
To crash into someone or something while moving in the air
Something regarded spectacular enough to be included among the Seven Wonders of the World.
To be put next to someone or something.
1. Used to describe a nasty substance, such as dirt between the toes.
2. Valueless.
3. To stop working.
4. To sleep.
Starting of the idiom is a verb, we need to conjugate tense for the verb
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This phrase refers to the situation where a plane crashes to the ground and burns. It derived from the 1940s, when many combat planes met with this fate in World War II.
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