go+to+rack+and+ruin
21go to wrack 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 …
22go to rack and ruin — …
23rack — rack1 [rak] n. [ME racke < LowG rack < IE * rek , to project, bar > ROCK2] 1. a framework, grating, case, stand, etc. for holding or displaying various things [clothes rack, dish rack, pipe rack, bomb rack]: often used in combination:… …
24Rack — 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] …
25rack — Ⅰ. rack [1] ► NOUN 1) a framework for holding or storing things. 2) a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something. 3) (the rack) historical an instrument of torture consisting… …
26rack — in the phrase rack and ruin means ‘destruction’ and is normally spelt in this way in BrE, although it is originally a variant of the older form wrack (which is still sometimes used). Rack is one of nine nouns and seven verbs with this spelling,… …
27to rack and manger — phrasal archaic : to waste and destruction : to wrack and ruin the moment my back is turned everything goes to rack and manger Henry Fielding …
28rack — rack1 [ ræk ] noun count * 1. ) an object used for storing things that consists of a row of small shelves, spaces, or hooks: She flicked through the clothes on the rack, looking for something suitable. a wine rack a vegetable rack a ) a metal… …
29rack — rack1 rackingly, adv. /rak/, n. 1. a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack. 2. a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack; a spice rack …
30rack — rack1 noun 1》 a framework for holding or storing things. ↘a vertically barred holder for animal fodder. 2》 a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something. 3》 (the rack)… …
