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• Rack and ruin — Rack Rack, n. [See {Wreck}.] A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.] [1913 Webster] {Rack and ruin}, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.] {To go to rack}, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] All goes to rack. Pepys. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• rack and ruin — If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• rack and ruin — A state of neglect and collapse • • • Main Entry: ↑rack …   Useful english dictionary

• rack and ruin — {n. phr.} Complete decay; condition of decline. * /The entire house had been so neglected that it had gone to rack and ruin./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• rack and ruin — {n. phr.} Complete decay; condition of decline. * /The entire house had been so neglected that it had gone to rack and ruin./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• rack\ and\ ruin — n. phr. Complete decay; condition of decline. The entire house had been so neglected that it had gone to rack and ruin …   Словарь американских идиом

• rack and ruin —    If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• Rack and ruin —   If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked …   Dictionary of English idioms

• go to rack and ruin — go to rack/wrack and ruin old fashioned if a building goes to rack and ruin, its condition becomes very bad because no one is taking care of it. She s let that house go to rack and ruin since Clive died …   New idioms dictionary

• go to rack and ruin — 1) to become less successful The country s going to rack and ruin. 2) if a building goes to rack and ruin, the condition of it becomes bad Their tenants had let the property go to rack and ruin …   English dictionary

• go to rack and ruin —    If something goes to rack and ruin, it deteriorates or falls into serious decline until it reaches a state of complete destruction.     When the factory closed down, the building was to left to go to rack and ruin …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions