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                           Phrase(s): wrack and ruin  Cliché complete destruction or ruin.  •  They went back after the fire and saw the wrack and ruin that used to be their house.  •  Drinking brought him nothing but wrack and ruin.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs