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wrack_and_ruin

wrack and ruin

English

Alternative forms

  • wracke and ruine (obsolete)

Noun

wrack and ruin (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Complete destruction.
    • 1577, Henry Bull, Commentarie upon the fiftene psalmes (by Martin Luther, translation):
      Whiles all things seeme to fall to wracke and ruine.[1]

Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 Gary Martin, “Rack and ruin”, The Phrase Finder
  2. 1548, Ephraim Udall, sermon: “The flocke goeth to wrecke and vtterly perisheth.”