English / idiom
Go Down in Flames
MEANING IN ENGLISH
To suffer a spectacular, humiliating, and catastrophic failure.
In context
01
Because the sales team failed to verify the client specifications, their ambitious proposal went down in flames.
02
No leader wants an annual product release to go down in flames before a national audience.
Synonyms
Crash and burn,fail catastrophically,collapse spectacularly
Antonyms
Triumph,succeed gloriously,end in victory
Collocations
go down in flames publicly,watch it go down in flames,project went down in flames