单词 | burn one's bridges (or boats) |
释义 | burn one's bridges (or British boats)Do something which makes it impossible to return to an earlier state.The young Culpeper had irrevocably burnt his bridges as far as returning to Cambridge and completing his training to be a Minister was concerned; the study of medicine was likewise denied to him....
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