To Burn One's Boats or to Burn One's Bridges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8727293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Winston A Reynolds (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-95 |
| Publication date | 1959-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/454373 |
| OpenAlex | W2312680960 |
| Language | EN |
ACOMPosrTE DEFINITION from seventeen dictionaries fixes the meaning of the figurative expressions to burn one's boats (behind one) and to burn one's bridges (behind one) as 'to cut off (or to cut oneself off from) all means (chance, chances, ways, hope, possibility) of retreat,' 'to stake everything on success,' 'to commit oneself irrevocably (to a course, to a particular line of action).' William Freeman phrases the meaning in the following manner
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| Highly cited | No |
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