burn your boats/bridges
Definition
› If you are in a situation and you burn your boats/bridges, you destroy all possible ways of going back to that situation.Not able to be changedKeeping and staying the same
(Definition of burn your boats/bridges from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a leopard can't/doesn't change its spots idiom
- be no hard and fast rules idiom
- congenital adjective
- continuity noun
- deep-seated adjective
- firm verb (STOP CHANGING)
- fixed adjective (ARRANGED)
- fixity noun
- hard line noun
- hard-line adjective
- ingrained adjective (BELIEFS)
- institutionalized racism noun
- irredeemable adjective
- irreducible adjective
- irremediable adjective
- Rubicon noun
- stasis noun
- stuck adjective
- uncompromising adjective
- what's done is done idiom
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