burn your bridges

burn your bridges
burn your boats/​bridges phrase
to do something that makes it impossible for you to return to the situation you were in before

Be polite – you don’t want to burn your bridges with her.

Thesaurus: to stop something from continuing or developingsynonym to kill a person or animalsynonym
Main entry: burn

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burn your bridges — see burn, 1
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Main Entry:bridge
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burn your bridges (also Brit burn your boats)
: to do something that makes you unable to go back to a previous situation

Even after leaving his job, he tried to stay on friendly terms with his former boss because he didn't want to burn his bridges.

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Main Entry:burn

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burn your ˈbridges idiom
(BrE also burn your ˈboats) to do sth that makes it impossible to return to the previous situation later

Think carefully before you resign— you don't want to burn your bridges.

Main entry:burnidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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