English · Word pair Candidate

crash and burn

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

To fail completely and spectacularly

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

thất bại hoàn toàn và ngoạn mục

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: an aircraft crashing and burning

Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

What, so he's not very forward or er I think Charlie's worried that erm, you know, doesn't wanna crash and burn.

And there is no end to this crash - and - burn surveillance strategy, owing to the nature of the information that is caught in the net.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.

Common questions

What does “crash and burn” mean?

To fail completely and spectacularly Literally: an aircraft crashing and burning

Is “crash and burn” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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