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go to rack and ruin

 and go to wrack and ruin

to become ruined. (The words rack and wrack mean "wreckage" and are found only in this expression.) That lovely old house on the corner is going to go to rack and ruin. My lawn is going to wrack and ruin.

See also: and, rack, 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.

See also: and, rack, ruin