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rack and ruin

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[rack and ruin] {n. phr.}

Complete decay; condition of decline.

* /The entire house had been so neglected that it had gone to rack and ruin./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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