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burn to a cinder
Idioms and Phrases
Also, burn to a crisp . Destroy by fire; overcook. For example, If I stay in the sun too long, I'll be burnt to a cinder , or He's an awful cook鈥攄inner was burnt to a crisp . Although both expressions can be used literally, they also function as hyperbole, as in the examples.Example Sentences
When they can no longer hold the spacecraft steady, it will start to tumble, communication will be lost, and the probe will burn to a cinder.
The world is awash in a fresh wave of tech-centric optimism and the Middle East鈥檚 Twitter revolts have yet to burn to a cinder.
Bevis wanted to see the glade and the rabbit鈥檚 burries, but Mark said, if the duck was done, it would burn to a cinder, so they went home to their dinner.
Control failures could cause the spacecraft to re-enter the earth's atmosphere at too steep an angle and burn to a cinder, or at so flat an angle that it would bounce off the outer fringes of the atmosphere far into space.
She could not, of course, say no, and the Widow Perkins, who, besides attending to "Uncle Jim" and "Aunt Dolly," still found time to watch the school-house, came very near letting her buttermilk biscuit burn to a cinder, when she saw the young man walking down the road with Mary.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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