What is the meaning of "to burn a bridge or two"?

Question

best answer gets 10 points.

Answer 1

it means that one has said or done things so that he/she can not go backward.


an apology or gift or whatever will not put things back to the way they were before.

Answer 2

Literally, a bridge is needed to level the travel. If it is burned [destroyed], the next time the area is traveled, it will be a tough hike.

Among people, the bridge is the relationship. If the relationship is destroyed, people are damaged. The next people, in either of the "burned folks" lives, may catch some of the fire that has not been distinguished in the previous relationship.

Answer 3

Burning a bridge means to cut ties with a person or relationship in a bad manner so as to not make reconcilation easy. For instance there is a song called "Take This Job and Shove It." The person who sang that song burned the bridge with his old employer by telling them to stick the job you know where.

Answer 4

Where you screw someone over and theres no repairing the friendship - or two people. Thats in a 311 song.

Once you burn a bridge theres no getting back to the other side.

Answer 5

Its in a song by 311.

Answer 6

If you 'burn your bridges'... there's no going back.

Answer 7

It means you better be really sure about what you're doing and where you're heading, cause you just made it so that you can never return, not even to patch things up.

Answer 8

i guess to cut of connections with people because of mistakes you've made.

Answer 9

You have f*cked up so bad there is no turning back.