Wiktionary
flame out
vb. 1 Of processes and equipment involving combustion, to fail due to extinction of flame. 2 (context figuratively English) To fail, usually spectacularly. 3 burn up, fire up, flame up, flare up
Usage examples of "flame out".
The torches blazed back up, as if Sanglant had sucked the flame out of them to fuel his anger, but probably it was only the backwash from the aetherical wind that had driven into the chamber and vanished as abruptly.
Without fuel the engines would flame out and they would have to ditch, and Magruder didn't like the thought of a night ejection over the rough waters of the North Atlantic this far from a carrier.
Of course I have a fire extinguisher in the cabin, and had the tiny flame out in about three seconds.