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shambles
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shambles as in:  the place is a shambles

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  • Within two years after the nationalization of its oil, the Iranian economy lay in shambles.†  (source)
  • She obliged, and with her relationship in shambles, she agreed to marry him a week later.†  (source)
  • What a shambles.†  (source)
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  • He thought the kitchen would be a shambles, but the table stood level, the chairs snugged evenly beneath.†  (source)
  • "The entire country is in a shambles," ranted the pirate radio announcer we were tuned into, JikeMike, in the background.†  (source)
  • Even so, Aringarosa's moment of glory was in shambles.†  (source)
  • Pale and bruised, lean to the point of infirmity, he shambles toward the bed.†  (source)
  • It was a shambles at the time; eleven families were crowded into it.†  (source)
  • She found the buffet, and found it in shambles, a feast raided by animals or Vikings, and made her way to the nearest bar, which was out of Riesling and was now offering only some kind of vodka-and-energy drink concoction.†  (source)
  • The retreat is a bloody shambles.†  (source)
  • Can a man not come back for an axe helve without finding his house a shambles?†  (source)
  • The garage—our indestructible bunker—was a shambles.†  (source)
  • The house behind the lawn had also run to riot; it was a gray, paint-peeling, roof-sagging shambles.†  (source)
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