train wreck

train wrecknoun

• 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.

  • 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."
• 4

  Someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin.

  • 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.

train wreckverb

• 1

  informalTo ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.

  • […] basic fundamental communication steps must be achieved so not to train wreck the new employee.
  • "I want this, too, I want you. Like really want you more than anything I've wanted in a long time. But if you force it, you're going to train wreck the whole thing in a fiery mess over a steep cliff with jagged rocks below."