up in smoke

“All my home is gone up in smoke and ash.”

"The greatest thing to happen to me would be if this house went up in smoke," Nick says.

Gov. Mark Robinson, whose Republican campaign for North Carolina's gubernatorial seat has been gone up in smoke after it was revealed he bragged about being a "black NAZI."

We’ve long had the tools to predict the conditions for extreme fire dangers; it’s a shame not to use those tools to better protect our struggling forests from us, and our way of life, from going up in smoke.

“I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke,” she reportedly said, adding that she didn’t agree with the transphobic discourse launched by the defeat.