train wreck

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The aftermath of a train crash
A disaster, especially one which is large in scale and readily seen by public observers

Your personal life has been, and is, a train wreck..

(Music) The point at which many or all musicians in an orchestra fall into unrecoverable discord while playing a piece, usually caused by an incorrect note, missed beat, or poor conducting

There was a train wreck when the timpanist struck the kettledrum slightly too soon and everyone lost their place.

train wrecks
plural form of train wreck
train-wreck
Alternative form of train wreck

Harmon, the fireman lodger, passing through the kitchen on his way out to work, had paused to tell Saxon about the previous day's train-wreck in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot.

trainwreck
Alternative spelling of train wreck

What’s the point of all this? We think it’s ‘hey, don’t forget to watch the new season of Jon & Kate Plus 8 this coming Monday, only on TLC’. But it might also be ‘stick in there, because these kids are going to be trainwrecks when they grow up, and everybody likes a trainwreck’. Or it might be ‘why hasn’t anybody got anything better to do with their lives than obsess about any of this?’If we could bring ourselves to care enough, we’d tell you. But, hey, we can’t.

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