Showing results for train smash. Search instead for grain smut.

train smash

British

noun

informal a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash )

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

train smash

Suddenly, a freight train smash on the bait.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022

Impertinent psychologising possessed me while the film redeemed itself with a splendidly Shakespearean car and train smash.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2016

Mind you, sir, that was after he had saved me from the train smash.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023