The phrase
"train wreck" is often used to describe a situation or event that is chaotic, disaster-prone, or completely out of control. It suggests that something has gone horribly wrong and is causing a lot of trouble or destruction.
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Not because it's a wonderful gem everybody most play, but because it's an absolute
train wreck of a disaster.
What if there is simply nothing we can do to stop the looming financial
train wreck from happening?
But while it's not a good movie, neither is it quite the
total train wreck implied by many reviews.
Put simply, there is no way you can make money consistently in the markets if you are an emotional
train wreck who gives into every little mental impulse you feel about the market.
This would be the biggest
train wreck known to football even before you consider the fact it takes a team a while to adjust to a new formation.
But the above is also inspiring because in less than four years I've gone from the
above train wreck to being hired by a prominent investment newsletter due to my analytical ability.
That was my initial reaction when I learned of the whole foods trick of giving chocolate sweet treats an avocado base; no way was that
culinary train wreck going to taste fantastic.
The climax set at a baseball game is a
storytelling train wreck, fraught with inconsistencies and overly convenient outcomes.
The latter is more common in
train wreck cases since the liable party typically did not intend to cause the accident.
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Given the slow
motion train wreck that publishing seems to be right now, I'd say quitting your day job to write full time might be... risky.
They've had 7 years to do something regarding the «
regulatory train wreck» and now with less than a year to go they're only talking about it.
They can happen but with the appreciation we have seen unless the situation is a
total train wreck most people are able to get out without going the short sale route.
In response to Jami Gold's post yesterday, I happened to go look up said troll because, hey, I admit that Author Behaving Badly stories are kind of
like train wrecks.
They were convinced the senior LexisNexis management is aware of the magnitude of the Lexis Advance disaster and they are «treading water to delay the inevitable
train wreck for a long as possible.»
Secondly, the other thing that you have is a regulatory
train wreck with many different laws, such as the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
«We did fall behind operationally on our completions in the Spraberry / Wolfcamp in large part due to unforeseen drilling delays... we now find we have a higher percentage of what we kind of refer to
as train wreck wells, where we have all kinds of problems,» Pioneer Natural Resources» President and CEO Timothy Dove said at the Q2 results conference call.
It says nothing about people rushing to stoke the engine with more and more coal, or how much actual coal is added (thus the actual range of speeds to expect), or the possibility of a precipice with bridge out up ahead (runaway GW), how dangerous that might be at various speeds, entailing greater or less number of deaths, or how far or close that precipice is, which we don't know either (except we have some fossil evidence of
train wrecks in which 90 % of life died, so we know it could be bad).
Sahota effectively employs dramatic irony, where the reader is privy to both the whole canvas and smaller details of the characters» lives, which are eloquently painted, and can therefore
see train wrecks coming before they actually do.
They come in top styles such as straps, halter, and strapless (um, yeah — if you are lucky enough to have an ample bosom, I'm going to suggest you avoid the strapless
train wreck waiting to happen to you).
I call it an adoption
train wreck because such articles appear every few years, terrifying those considering adoption.
He curses films to fail they need to end his career so he does
n't train wreck anything else.
This is an industry grappling with potentially gigantic changes that may be forced on it by technological advances, and as someone who works in both the journalism and technology fields, I get the feeling that I've seen some version of this same slow - motion
train wreck before.
Any time that Government agencies get their fingers into something functional (albeit imperfect), things tend to go off the rails and the
inevitable train wreck occurs.
Sure, you can do something outrageous, hoping to get your book title mentioned in the resulting firestorm, but if your book isn't
about train wrecks and disasters, does it really do you any good to get publicity linked to either?
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