Meaning: burned

adj.
having undergone oxidationinjured by intense heat (as of fire or the sun)treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing pointhardened by subjecting to intense heatdestroyed or badly damaged by fireruined by overcooking

get your fingers burned Idiom, Proverb

burned

convicted or punished while involved in crime Tony got burned when he was a drug dealer. He went to jail.

get burned

be caught, get blamed, get into trouble I got burned for helping Bev with her divorce. They blamed me.

get one's fingers burned

Idiom(s): get one's fingers burned

Theme: EXPERIENCE

to have a bad experience.
• I had my fingers burned the last time I did this.
• I tried that once before and got my fingers burned. I wont try it again.
• If you go swimming and get your fingers burned, you wont want to swim again.

burned up

Idiom(s): burned up

Theme: ANGER

very angry.
• I've never been so burned up in my life.
• I'm really burned up at Bob.

burned to a cinder

Idiom(s): burned to a cinder

Theme: HARM

burned very badly. (Not necessarily literal.)
• I stayed out in the sun too long, and I am burned to a cinder.
• This toast is burnt to a cinder.

get (one's) fingers burned

To ache an abhorrent or annihilative aftereffect (especially the accident of money) for some action, generally such that one becomes afraid or afraid to do it again. During the bang times, endless ambitious investors put aggregate they endemic in adumbral advance deals, and best of them concluded up accepting their fingers abominably burned.Learn more: burn, finger, get

get your fingers burned

burn your fingers

COMMON If you get your fingers burned or burn your fingers back you try do something, it goes wrong, and there are actual abhorrent after-effects for you. Unfortunately abounding bodies got their fingers austere back the Web abnormality access assimilate the scene. Foreign investors accept a continued history of afire their fingers back they try their duke at authoritative Hollywood movies.Learn more: burn, finger, get

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burst with joy burst out laughing burst into tears burst into flames burst in on burned up burned to a cinder burn with a low blue flame burn to a crisp burn one's bridges in front of one burn one's bridges behind one burn sb up burn sb at the stake get your ass over here Get your ass over here! get your ass over/in here, etc. get your bait back get your beauty sleep get your brain into gear get your breath back get your buns over here Get your buns over here! get your butt over here Get your butt over here! get your cards get your claws into get your claws into somebody get your claws into someone get your comeuppance get your dander up get your deserts get your ducks in a row get your end away get your eye in get your feet on the ground get your feet under the table get your feet wet get your finger out get your fingers burned get your fingers burnt get your hand in get your hands dirty get your hands on someone get your hands on something get your head around something get your head down get your head out of the clouds Get your head out of the clouds! get your head round something get your hooks into somebody get your hooks into someone get your just deserts get your kecks on get your kicks get your kit off get your knickers in a twist get your knife into somebody get your leg over get your lines/wires crossed get your marching orders get your mitts on Get your nose out of my business! get your oats get your own back