burn to a cinder Idiome
burn to a cinder
burn to a cinder Also,
burn to a crisp. Destroy by fire; overcook. For example,
If I stay in the sun too long, I'll be burnt to a cinder, or
He's an awful cook—dinner was burnt to a crisp. Although both expressions can be used literally, they also function as hyperbole, as in the examples.
burn (someone or something) to a cinder
1. To bake something, about back affable it, to the admeasurement that it is absolutely broiled and blackened. I forgot about the aliment I'd put in the oven and austere it to a cinder.2. To bake addition acutely (typically apropos to sunburn). Often acclimated in acquiescent constructions. If you lay on the bank all day after any sunscreen, you'll get austere to a cinder.Learn more: burn, cinderburn to a cinder
Also, burn to a crisp. Destroy by fire; overcook. For example, If I break in the sun too long, I'll be burnt to a cinder, or He's an abominable cook-dinner was burnt to a crisp. Although both expressions can be acclimated literally, they additionally action as hyperbole, as in the examples. Learn more: burn, cinderburn article to a ˈcinder/ˈcrisp
baker article for too continued or with too abundant heat, so that it becomes abominably burnt: Alan larboard the potatoes for so continued that they were burnt to a crisp.Learn more: burn, cinder, crisp, something