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train wreck

or ٰ·ɰ𳦰

[ trein-rek ]

noun

  1. an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
  2. Slang. a person who has experienced a personal failure, disaster, etc.
  3. Slang. a disastrous situation, occurrence, or process:

    His football career has been a train wreck.



train wreck

noun

  1. an incident in which a train is severely damaged
  2. informal.
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of train wreck1

First recorded in 1870–75
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“It’s so obvious he’s destroying our basic rights with no regard for the rule of law. He’s a train wreck.”

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“The national seashore, from an ecological standpoint, was a train wreck,” he said.

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“It’s like watching the slowest train wreck happen in real time,” she said.

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There’s no way he would have tolerated living in the same city of the train wreck that is the Sparks.

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It's a train wreck of B.S., from people claiming sunscreen and vaccines don't work to bizarre videos claiming demons infect everything to old-fashioned authoritarian lies.

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