Rack and ruin

Rack and ruin
Rack Rack, n. [See {Wreck}.] A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.] [1913 Webster]

{Rack and ruin}, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.]

{To go to rack}, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] ``All goes to rack.'' --Pepys. [1913 Webster]


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