tear it

Ruin something, spoil one's chances, as in She knew she'd torn it when she lost the address. It is often put as that tears it, as in He's a whole week late-well, that tears it for the September issue. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Henda	-	Yiddish
Dip	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi
Gabi	GAH-bee (German)	German, Romanian, Hungarian
Souma	so:-mah	Japanese
Ram (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Nepali
Ludvig	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish