If something is a one-way ticket to an unpleasant situation, it will cause that situation to happen.

A rejection of the peace deal would be a one-way ticket to disaster for the country. 反对和平协议将使国家陷入灾难。

These dull, formulaic comedies run for three or four episodes before getting a one-way ticket to television obscurity.

A season in some tiny, provincial theatre sounded like a one-way ticket to oblivion.

Climate scientists have warned that the world's current trajectory is a one-way ticket to disaster.

The current party leader is a one-way ticket to election defeat, that's for sure.