train wreck

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[ trein-rek ]

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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.

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First recorded in 1870–75

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Umpires call it a train wreck, a play that results in a horrific collision through no fault of the baserunner or fielder.

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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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