go up in flames
• be destroyed by fire.
• "last night two factories went up in flames"
go up
• (of a building or other structure) be built.
• "a number of housing developments went up"
• explode or suddenly burst into flames.
• "last night two factories went up in flames"
• begin one's studies at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.
• "he went up to Oxford to read Chemistry"
