lie in ruins



lie in ruins

to exist in a state of ruin, such as a destroyed city, building, scheme, plan, etc. The entire city lay in ruins. My garden lay in ruins after the cows got in and trampled everything.
See also: lie, ruin

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
KunibertKOO-nee-bert (German)German, Ancient Germanic
Marija-Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Cash[kæʃ]
Sevastyan-Russian
Yuayoo-ahJapanese
ÂViÂJa-Native American, Greenlandic