burn up vs go up in flames

burn up

verb
  • To catch fire and burn until destroyed. 

  • To feel overly hot or inflamed. 

  • To anger; to annoy. 

  • To destroy by burning. 

  • To experience a high fever. 

go up in flames

verb
  • To catch fire. 

  • To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return. 

How often have the words burn up and go up in flames occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )