go to rack and ruin

go to rack and ruin
погибать, идти к гибели; совершенно разориться; приходить в упадок, в запустение; пойти прахом; см. тж. rack and ruin

The worst of all University snobs are those unfortunates who go to rack and ruin from their desire to ape their betters. (W. Thackeray, ‘The Book of Snobs’, ch. XV) — Хуже всех университетских снобов те несчастные, что лезут из кожи вон, стараясь подражать счастливчикам из более высоких слоев общества.

By God, I've never known such heat as we had in May... The olives went to rack and ruin. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Complete Short Stories’, ‘A Man from Glasgow’) — Видит бог, у нас никогда такой жары не было, как в этом мае... Погибли все оливковые деревья.

Gase had bought Peter Moody's old house and the orchard which sloped down to the river - a good property, though he did not know how to run it and the place had gone to rack and ruin. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Working Bullocks’, ch. XXII) — Гейз купил у Питера Муди его старый дом с фруктовым садом, сбегающим вниз к реке. Когда-то это была неплохая усадьба, но для нее не нашлось хорошего хозяина, и она пришла в запустение.

...she rapped out, ‘A person can't get out of this house for half a day without everything going to rack and ruin.’ (S. Heym, ‘Goldsborough’, ch. 3) — - Нельзя из этого дома и на полдня уйти - все пойдет к черту! - затараторила Эвелина...


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • Rack and ruin — Rack 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rack and ruin — If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • rack and ruin — A state of neglect and collapse • • • Main Entry: ↑rack …   Useful english dictionary

  • 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./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • 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./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • 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 …   Словарь американских идиом

  • rack and ruin —    If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Rack and ruin —   If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • go to rack 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 …   New idioms dictionary

  • go to rack and ruin — 1) to become less successful The country s going to rack and ruin. 2) if a building goes to rack and ruin, the condition of it becomes bad Their tenants had let the property go to rack and ruin …   English dictionary

  • go to rack and ruin —    If something goes to rack and ruin, it deteriorates or falls into serious decline until it reaches a state of complete destruction.     When the factory closed down, the building was to left to go to rack and ruin …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions


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