go up in smoke (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
glosses: To catch fire and burn.
glosses: To be completely ruined, devastated, or reduced to nothingness.
tags: broadly
idiomatic
Forms:
form: goes up in smoke
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: going up in smoke
tags: participle
present
form: went up in smoke
tags: past
form: gone up in smoke
tags: participle
past