I felt it was a way to burn my bridges.

Burn your bridges, she thought, and never look back again.

Burned all my bridges, and you've been stuck with me ever since.

There was a term for what she had just done: burning your bridges.

But she said the reason was "you just don't burn your bridges."

In the Cabinet no one wanted to burn his bridges.

Yet she had burned her bridges, would never be marrying.

"Wouldn't we be better off with a new president who hasn't burned his bridges to our allies?"

"I said it was important to turn a page, but not to burn one's bridges."

He decided not to wait for that: he'd burned his bridges, anyway.