2007-01-12 22:40:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Close your eyes and imagine a train wreck. One car crashes into the car in front of it, which crashes into the one in front of IT, and after several have been severely crushed, they all fall off the tracks. It's like a huge chain disaster, one thing causing another bad thing, and so on...
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2007-01-12 23:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by OhWhatCanIDo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Total wreck/disaster, most train crashes are almost inevitably very bad because thet are usually overcrowded with passengers, and the design, whereas the engines pulls many carriages, leads to collisions/de-railments causing the independent carriages to vere away from the point of impact.
2007-01-13 07:36:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To say that something "is a train wreck" means that it's a disaster in some way - it may be a real disaster, or it could mean something as simple as something really messy or disorganized, but either way, it means a chaotic situation.
2007-01-13 06:49:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I live I think we mostly use the attention-grabbing definition - like, "That picture is a trainwreck!" for when the people in the picture are making faces that are so silly that you just can't look away, even if it's kind of disturbing. Well, that's a pretty tame example -
If you saw some people doing something pretty nasty on a dance floor, and you really wanted to look away but couldn't - that would be a trainwreck too.
2007-01-13 06:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by Cedar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use that idomatic expression all the time it means the situation is really bad. Talking bad about your boss and then having him come up behind you and hear the whole thing would be a train wreck. Marring someone of a different religon would be a train wreck. It is really really bad.
2007-01-13 06:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by xx_muggles_xx 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The term "train wreck" is also used metaphorically to describe something distasteful or disastrous, yet inevitable, or something distasteful yet compelling in some form ("You don't want to stare, but you just can't look away").
2007-01-13 06:44:14 · answer #6 · answered by fxysxysrkly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What something would look like if it was hit by a train. Basically, a complete and utter write-off. Whatever it is in relation to, it would be the worst case scenario. Nothing could be worse.
2007-01-13 06:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
can also be used to describe the potential for disaster :
eg. "That is a train wreck waiting to happen"
2007-01-13 06:49:11 · answer #8 · answered by aka.rene 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you go to bed drunk with a beautiful woman & wake up with a super-megga-fuggly & look at her face
you will know what (face like a train wreck) means
2007-01-13 06:52:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when something has gone really really wrong, disastrous even, as is a train wreck
2007-01-13 07:17:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋