burn your bridges

Meaning

1. to do sth that makes it impossible to return to the previous situation later

   Think carefully before you resign — you don't want to burn your bridges.

In the movies · 1

• Hey, it doesn't work, you've burned your bridges, man.The Insider1999

From the same entry

• burn the candle at both ends
• burn your fingers
• burn a hole in your pocket
• burn the midnight oil
• burn rubber
• burn to a cinder
• ears are burning
• feel your ears burning
• have money to burn
• burn away
• burn down
• burn off