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What do you get from the term, 'burning bridges'?
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- peppershamLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It is a term used when you have made choices that you can never go back and do over or ask forgiveness for.It was a choice and you made it.Whether it was a good or bad thing.
- 1 decade ago
>> Burning Bridges usually means to break contacts behind you as you progress through life: So that effectively, it can either be a positive or negative thing as negatively it can stop you from retracing your steps to fix a problem that may arise.
Positively, you are always going forward.
Ciao!
I really like the Pink Floyd song entitled 'Burning Bridges' too!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
When you burn a bridge, can you get back to where you were? no. If you've burned your bridge, you can't go back.
- orange skyLv 61 decade ago
severing all possible ties to the past. No way to retrace your steps to a certain person.
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- ΦLv 61 decade ago
I get the sense of destroying your only hope of survival or sustenance. Yeah, it's pretty literal.