go up in flames
Also, go up in smoke. Be utterly destroyed, as in This project will go up in flames if the designer quits, or All our work is going up in smoke. This idiom transfers a fire to other kinds of destruction. [Early 1900s]
Words nearby go up in flames
go to waste,
go together,
go too far,
go under,
go up,
go up in flames,
go west,
go west, young man,
go whole hog,
go wilding,
go with