burn that bridge when one comes to it

A mixed metaphor combining cross that bridge when one comes to it and burn one's bridges.

• "That takes care of Kay. As for the man, I'll burn that bridge when I come to it."
• "...when the time came in making the inevitable break. Well — he'd burn that bridge when he came to it."
• "Tonight the happy couple were to sleep at Dyer House, as generations of Dukes and their Duchesses had before them, but — as Wessex's partner often said — they would burn that bridge when they came to it."
• "“We can't do anything about that now. Emma, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it, okay?”"
• "Clients often whistled a different tune at a later date, but one could burn that bridge when one came to it."

• build bridges
• burn one's bridges