in flames

Meaning

in flames

(figuratively, with a verb) Dramatically and with no hope of recovery.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

flaming blazing smouldering burning smoking inflamed ablaze alight flaring afire aflame on fire conflagrant incalescent

Examples

Superstition sets the whole world in flames philosophy quenches them. Voltaire

I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. Cesare Pavese

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. Kim Stanley Robinson

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. Terence McKenna

My body is a monster driven insane, My heart is a fish toasted in flames. Nick Cave

The world is, and has long been, in flames because races, nations and cultures are forced to violate their Nature ordained instincts for self-preservation. David Lane (white nationalist)

Words in the phrase

in flames

Close letter words and terms

in flagrant delict in flagrante in flagrante delicto in flight in flower in fluid form