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• burn (oneself) out
  стать очень усталым и разбитым из-за напряжённой работы

  "If you work so much, you might finally burn yourself out."
• burn (someone) in effigy
  сжечь изображение ненавистного человека

  They burned Hitler in effigy.
• burn (something) to a crisp
  сжечь что-либо до черноты

  I burned the toasts to a crisp and had to throw them into the garbage.
• burn a hole in one's pocket
  долго не держаться (о деньгах), "прожечь дыру в кармане"

  It's no wonder Jim is always short of money; the money often burns a hole in his pocket.
• burn down
  сгореть дотла (о строениях)

  The fire was going very strong and the restaurant burned down to cinders.
• burn one's bridges behind one
  сжечь за собой мосты, отрезать путь к отступлению

  The sportsman burned his bridges behind him when he decided to leave his team for ever.
• burn one's fingers
  обжечься на чём-либо

  Jeffrey Archer burned his fingers having invested into a Canadian company which went bankrupt.
• burn the candle at both ends
  гореть на работе, слишком много трудиться без отдыха

  Susan is burning the candle at both ends; I am afraid she might get sick.
• burn the midnight oil
  засиживаться за книгами до поздней ночи

  Leonard was fooling around the entire semester and now he has to burn the midnight oil.
• burn up
  сжигать, сгореть (о вещах, а не о строениях)

  They gathered up all the old newspapers and burned them up.