Burning the ships is a reference to some spanish conquistdo or something that went off into a south america and had maybe a hundred men on his ships. And they said, we must not retreat from this he said, send one of the men to burn the ships to show the soldiers we have to push forward. We cannot retreat to the homeland. So we have somebody went and burned the ships so they could not retreat, and they won the battle. Whether that was for better o orse historically, thet's a separate story. But yes, the phrase burning the ships means to to dramatically cut off your options retreat. And so that's what i did leaving America ten