"end in smoke" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: ends in smoke [present, singular, third-person], ending in smoke [participle, present], ended in smoke [participle, past], ended in smoke [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} end in smoke (third-person singular simple present ends in smoke, present participle ending in smoke, simple past and past participle ended in smoke)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be destroyed or ruined; to go up in smoke. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-end_in_smoke-en-verb-O1tOx6xn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for end in smoke meaning in English (1.1kB)

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