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/Sounds like "keh" (as in "kept") + "MAHR" (as in "mark") + "LAHS" (as in "lava") + "NAH" (as in "nacho") + "behs" (as in "bed")/
To burn your boats: make a fully irreversible commitment with no fallback option. The phrase recalls Hernan Cortes ordering his ships burned on the Mexican coast so his troops could not retreat. In Spain, quemar las naves means total, no-safety-net dedication to a path.
“He quit his stable job to start his own company, no going back.”
“If you resign like that, you burn your bridges with that company for good.”
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To burn your boats: make a fully irreversible commitment with no fallback option. The phrase recalls Hernan Cortes ordering his ships burned on the Mexican coast so his troops could not retreat. In Spain, quemar las naves means total, no-safety-net dedication to a path.
“He quit his stable job to start his own company, no going back.”
“If you resign like that, you burn your bridges with that company for good.”
Colgar los guantes
To hang up the gloves and retire definitively from an activity or career. Originally from boxing, in Argentina and Uruguay the expression applies to any permanent decision to stop: a professional career, a sport, or a long-held job.