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crash and burn

2 noun
     
crash and burn2, crash-and-burn [countable] informal
an occasion when something fails very quickly or suddenly, especially in a dramatic way:
His bid for the presidency finally did its crash-and-burn.
—crash-and-burn adjective [only before noun]
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