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  1. rack and ruin love

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic Complete destruction

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. [Colloq.] destruction; utter ruin.

Etymologies

  1. From wrack and ruin (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Tewett Hall had gone to rack and ruin for four years, and was now let almost for nothing.”

    The Eustace Diamonds

  • “The ceilidh was being held in a barnlike shack falling to rack and ruin down in the midst of the mangrove swamps festering about the mouth of the Dungloe River.”

    The Thorn Birds

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