"go up in smoke" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go up in smoke.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes up in smoke [present, singular, third-person], going up in smoke [participle, present], went up in smoke [past], gone up in smoke [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> up in smoke}} go up in smoke (third-person singular simple present goes up in smoke, present participle going up in smoke, simple past went up in smoke, past participle gone up in smoke)
  1. To catch fire and burn. Categories (topical): Fire Translations (catch fire): gå op i røg (Danish), in rook opgaan (Dutch), palaa poroksi (Finnish), partir en fumée (French), andare in fumo (Italian), iść z dymem [imperfective] (Polish), pójść iść z dymem [perfective] (Polish), загоре́ться (zagorétʹsja) (Russian), gå upp i rök (Swedish), gå upp i lågor (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-go_up_in_smoke-en-verb-~9BuG0oh Disambiguation of Fire: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'catch fire': 98 2
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) To be completely ruined or devastated. Tags: broadly, idiomatic Synonyms (be ruined): come to nothing, end in smoke, go up in flames Translations (be ruined): gå op i røg (Danish), in rook opgaan (Dutch), haihtua savuna ilmaan (Finnish), füstbe megy (Hungarian), pójść z dymem (Polish), virar fumaça (Portuguese), пойти́ пра́хом (pojtí práxom) [perfective] (Russian), quedar en agua de borrajas (Spanish), gå upp i rök (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-go_up_in_smoke-en-verb-UMUPd1wj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 12 88 Disambiguation of 'be ruined': 25 75 Disambiguation of 'be ruined': 25 75

Inflected forms

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