burn to a cinder

释义

1. burn sth to a cinder / crisp

   把某物烧焦（或烧煳）

   to cook sth for too long or with too much heat, so that it becomes badly burnt

电影里这样说 · 1 部

• Well, it was just last week, I read in the paper where a couple took a boy from an orphan asylum and he set fire to their house at night, on purpose. Burnt them to a crisp in their beds.Anne of Green Gables1985

同一词条的短语

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