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crash and burn1. Literally, to crash and catch fire. Typically said of a car or airplane. Her car crashed and burned, but she survived the accident.2. To fail at something completely and dramatically. I really hope this business venture doesn't crash and burn—I'll be broke if it does. My attempt to make a speech before the whole student body really crashed and burned when I got on stage and forgot everything I was supposed to say.3. In sports, to experience a significant accident or crash and thus have to withdraw from a competition. Alex isn't competing today because she crashed and burned on her practice run last night.See also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn 1. Lit. [for a plane or car] to crash and burst into flames. The small plane crashed and burned just after it took off. 2. Fig. to fail spectacularly. Poor Chuck really crashed and burned when he made his presentation at the sales meeting.See also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn1. Fail utterly, as in Dale crashed and burned three times before passing the bar exam. This idiom alludes to a car or airplane that has crashed and caught fire. [Slang; 1970s] 2. In skateboarding and other sports, be taken out of competition by a collision, accident, or fall, as in Although she was favored to win the downhill race, she crashed and burned on her first run . [Slang; 1980s] See also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn To crash and burn is to fail very badly. Stock markets don't crash and burn without warning. He will either go down in history as a very great president or he'll crash and burn. Note: This may be a reference to a plane crashing into the ground and bursting into flames. See also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn fail spectacularly. North American informal 1994 Hispanic But if you use Spanish, be careful not to crash and burn…the language is booby-trapped for the unwary PR professional. See also: and, burn, crashˌcrash and ˈburn (American English, slang)
1 fail completely: She shot to fame, then crashed and burned.
2 fall asleep or collapse because you are very tiredSee also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn1. in. [for a young man] to fail brilliantly with a romance. (see also go down in flames.) It stands to reason that if Carole hadn’t shot me down, I wouldn’t have crashed and burned. 2. in. to fail spectacularly. I have to be prepared. I don’t want to crash and burn if I don’t have to. See also: and, burn, crash crash and burn Slang To fail utterly.See also: and, burn, crashcrash and burn
crash and burn (jargon)A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion ofthe car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequentimitators (compare die horribly). A Sun-3 display screen losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikeson VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burngenerators.
The construction "crash-and-burn machine" is reported for acomputer used exclusively for alpha or beta testing, orreproducing bugs (i.e. not for development). The implicationis that it wouldn't be such a disaster if that machinecrashed, since only the testers would be inconvenienced.FinancialSeeCrashAcronymsSeecabinet file |