rack and ruin | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,proscribed)Completedestruction.1599, Thomas Fowler,The history of Corpus Christi College:In the mean season the College shall goe torack and ruin.[1]

Examples:

EN: Oliver I, I don't like to say this... paper is going to rack and ruin with me hidden away in that water cooler. - Look at this. - What's that?
ES: Perdone que le diga, pero si me relega no sé qué será de este periódico.
EN: They had honest governors so long, the whole place is in rack and ruin.
ES: Han tenido gobernadores honestos mucho tiempo... el lugar entero está echado a perder.
EN: That cottage bay seemed to be going to rack and ruin.
ES: La cabaña estaba casi en ruinas.
EN: Really, Tarzan you've let the whole place go to rack and ruin, just because...
ES: Mira, Tarzán dejaste que el lugar quede hecho un desastre solo porque...
EN: This place is falling to rack and ruin.
ES: Esto se está viniendo abajo.
EN: You want my club should go to rack and ruin while you are 400 miles away playin' around with some Mickey Mouse?
ES: ¿Quieres que mi club se arruine mientras tú estás a muchos kilómetros jugando con Mickey Mouse?
EN: It's a pity to let it go to rack and ruin like this.
ES: ¿Y por qué ha dejado que todo esto se arruinase?
EN: The world has gone to rack and ruin.
ES: El mundo se ha arruinado.
EN: Ten solid, wrenching minutes of rack and ruin... the derby!
ES: Diez aplastantes minutos seguidos de sufrimiento. ¡La carrera!
EN: To go to rack and ruin?
ES: ¿Qué sea todo una ruina?
EN: "Then I found they'd got these crazy ideas about the courts being ineffective..." "...and the country going to rack and ruin."
ES: Luego supe de esas ideas descabelladas suyas sobre tribunales ineficaces y que el país se resquebrajaba y se iba al infierno.
EN: Buy machines. The place is going to rack and ruin.
ES: Mientras compras esas máquinas todo se está yendo a la ruina.
EN: Since then my life has gone to rack and ruin.
ES: Desde ese día mi vida se ha vuelto agua de borrajas.
EN: He wants you to move into land which otherwise would go to rack and ruin, you respond by saying, "OK, cut the rent."
ES: Quiere que te mudes a una tierra que sino se echaría a perder, tú respondes, "De acuerdo, bájame la renta."
EN: Tell me! I saw rack and ruin...
ES: Vi miseria y ruina...

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