end in smoke

But the history of the Knights would end in smoking disaster.

Ay, if he do not end in smoke again.

This story is going to end in smoke.

But our discussions began and ended in smoke.

But he's practically sure to be here some time tonight, and then it'll all end in smoke, tobacco smoke.

All his schemes have ended in smoke; he has touched nothing that he did not confuse.

But it always ended in smoke.

True, the attempt to rescue Arnheim and Nijmegen had ended in smoke.

All must end in smoke.

But I'd have done a rather poor job of it if I'd let it end in smoking blasters and corpses all over the place.

It is essential that they should not be mere opium visions that begin and end in smoke--and so often in cannon smoke.

He tried to recall precisely the first minutes of the nightmare ride in the Bentley that ended in smoke and fire and death in the Colinas Rojas.

The frightened mourners start aghast from the hideous squelch, and weep afresh to see all the hopes and glories of their state thus suddenly ended in smoke and ashes.

The final line recalls an old English saying: "All his swans are turned to geese", meaning all his expectations end in nothing; all his boasting ends in smoke, like a person who fancies he sees a swan on a river but finds it to be only a goose.

Kim Jong-un himself delivered an address calling for the party to "take the initiative in launching operations to make the imperialist moves for ideological and cultural infiltration end in smoke" and to set up "mosquito nets with two or three layers to prevent capitalist ideology, which the enemy is persistently attempting to spread, from infiltrating across our border."