burn one's bridges
burn one's boats

The old saying is true, Never burn your bridges behind you.

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

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

"How do you get away from parents and find independence without literally burning your bridges?"

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

Further evidence that you should not burn your bridges.

Nothing like burning your bridges before you reached them.

"All right, but if you see Burt you'll be burning your bridges.

"When you've burned your bridges like that, you're entitled to a little credibility."

No point in burning your bridges behind you.

"It doesn't do any good to burn your bridges.

"One lesson I learned is, don't burn your bridges."

And so you don't burn your bridges.

Don't burn your bridges before you cross them."

Don't burn your bridges before your chickens are hatched.

"In the military they call it burning your bridges behind you so you can't retreat but are forced to advance.

Talk about burning your bridges.

You burned your bridges.

"Do you watch and wait, fearful that you'll burn your bridges, or do you hit the virus early and hard?

Songs to Burn Your Bridges By was re-released in June 2004.

"Burning your bridges?"

Burn Your Bridges Atlantis Part 2.

It often involves a planning failure such as "don't count your chickens before they hatch" or "don't burn your bridges."

The fact is you mean war and you have burnt your bridges.... One sees how peace-loving you are."