Meaning of train wreck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A train crash.
2. The wreckage resulting from a train crash.
3. A disaster, especially one which is large, chaotic, and readily seen by public observers.
   figuratively
4. Someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin.
   figuratively

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Examples

“There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days.”

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

““Hrmm. I see your stylist's been working nights.” He surveyed the train wreck of my hair in the rearview mirror.”

“She may have been a train wreck, but she was a train wreck people still can't seem to get enough of. The sordid but fascinating story of her vicious, no-holds-barred battle with life is one of the most gripping, sex-soaked biographies in years.”

“[…] women, by and large, do not like themselves very much: their ambition gaps, their orgasm gaps, their imposter syndrome, […] their trainwrecks, and their need for trainwrecks; the enduring, self-loathing need to find someone about whom they can say well, at least I'm not that girl.”

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