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Examples:Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985—paper prayers for the dead burnt at funerals—mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship)—stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); get one's fingers burnt—ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead—play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences—burn the candle at both ends [idiom.]—lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); arrogance of the powerful—burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day—lit. make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil—burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble—kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson—lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns have influence—burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)—lit. call the fire burn the grass (idiom); to cause a quarrel by provocation—Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII—burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person—While the green hills last, there'll be wood burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.—burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)—lit. burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common—slash-and-burn (agriculture)—burn sth. down deliberately— |