"go up in flames" meaning in All languages combined

See go up in flames on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-go up in flames.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes up in flames [present, singular, third-person], going up in flames [participle, present], went up in flames [past], gone up in flames [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> up in flames}} go up in flames (third-person singular simple present goes up in flames, present participle going up in flames, simple past went up in flames, past participle gone up in flames)
  1. (idiomatic, literal) To catch fire. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: go up in smoke Related terms: go down in flames
    Sense id: en-go_up_in_flames-en-verb-0brPVx2I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44
  2. (idiomatic, figurative) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-go_up_in_flames-en-verb-tlH4Abc5

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for go up in flames meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> up in flames"
      },
      "expansion": "go up in flames (third-person singular simple present goes up in flames, present participle going up in flames, simple past went up in flames, past participle gone up in flames)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch fire."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_up_in_flames-en-verb-0brPVx2I",
      "links": [
        [
          "catch fire",
          "catch fire"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, literal) To catch fire."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "74 26",
          "word": "go down in flames"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "67 33",
          "word": "go up in smoke"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_up_in_flames-en-verb-tlH4Abc5",
      "links": [
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ],
        [
          "hope",
          "hope"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go up in flames.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go up in flames"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone up in flames",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> up in flames"
      },
      "expansion": "go up in flames (third-person singular simple present goes up in flames, present participle going up in flames, simple past went up in flames, past participle gone up in flames)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go down in flames"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch fire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "catch fire",
          "catch fire"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, literal) To catch fire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ],
        [
          "hope",
          "hope"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go up in flames.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/En-au-go_up_in_flames.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "go up in smoke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go up in flames"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.