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train wreck
or ٰ·ɰ
[ trein-rek ]
noun
- an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- Slang. a person who has experienced a personal failure, disaster, etc.
- Slang. a disastrous situation, occurrence, or process:
His football career has been a train wreck.
train wreck
noun
- an incident in which a train is severely damaged
- informal.something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity
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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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