A few days ago
Anonymous

Burning bridges?

what does this expression mean? i hear it a lot in songs.

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A few days ago
SnowWhite

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Burning bridges…think about it in reality…. You go for a walk…you walk across a bridge…you burn it behind you…you can’t get back across it. NOW…what happens if your path dead-ends or there’s a bobcat on it…you really need to get back across that bridge or you’re STUCK.

NOW….Replace the bridge with a person/boss/coworker/job…and the path you’re on is your career. If you leave your boss/job in such a state that they want nothing more to do with you, or they’ll never help you out of a jam, even though you can’t see it now, it may in the long run HURT you. You never know when you might need them again.

As my father-in-law says….Be careful about the feet you step on and backs you stab today…You never know if they’ll be connected to the tush you’ll be kissing tomorrow.

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A few days ago
WVPV07
It means that you shouldn’t get rid of something before you really are sure you want to – like telling off a boss and going to a new job, just to find out that you need to go back to the old job.
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A few days ago
Beardo
It’s a metaphor from warfare where a retreating army would burn bridges to prevent their opponents from crossing. It was a mistake to burn the bridge before they had fully crossed them themselves.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
Severing relationships forever.
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