Usually means: Be destroyed by fire rapidly.
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  1. go up in flames: Merriam-Webster
  2. go up in flames: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go up in flames: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. go up in flames: Wiktionary
  5. go up in flames: Dictionary.com

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  1. go up in flames: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go up in flames)

verb:  (idiomatic, literal) To catch fire.
verb:  (idiomatic, figurative) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.

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