A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

go cold turkey • walk turkey
go cold turkey —(sl.) rid oneself of drug addiction by sudden
and complete withdrawal of the drug: I had to stop smoking,
so I went cold turkey.
Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
phrase talk cold turkey—(coll.) speak frankly and without
reserve (also: talk turkey): It would be impossible for the Pres-
ident to ever talk cold turkey because nobody would accept
the responsibility for fighting a war for economic reasons.
walk turkey —(of a ship) pitch and roll: The north wind
commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her
up on either end alternately.
go current • go with the current
go current—
1
. be in circulation or in common use: Now
what would be nice, is if users of these packages could test
them out as much as possible before they go current. 2. be
generally accepted: He returns forever to the old stories of the
Prophets as they went current in the Arab memory…
go with the current—(also: go with the stream) act or think
as the majority of people do: These are the people who mutter
lies about the futility of fighting the times … who advise us
to go with the current. Cf.: swim against the current— go against
prevailing opinion or thought: Dr. Lewis adopts a personal, cre-
ative approach to healing which I would say is swimming
against the current of “evidence based medicine.”
go down in flames • go up in flames
go down in flames —
1
. be destroyed by fire: When the house
went down in flames, the mayor accused McCown’s followers
of burning it. 2. (also: go down in smoke) fail or end suddenly;
come to nothing: It’s interesting to look back and see how
many of our plans went down in flames.
go up in flames —(also: go up in smoke) 
1
. = go down in flames
1
: A spark from the unscreened fireplace set fire to a bear rug
and the house went up in flames. 2. = go down in flames 2:
Unfortunately, that whole project went up in flames because
those guys ended up in a bitter quarrel.