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train smash

noun

  1. 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


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Suddenly, a freight train smash on the bait.

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I'm surprised the DEA didn't arrest him immediately after that coked up train smash.

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A California Highway Patrol officer who witnessed the crash said he saw “the train smash into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, smash into a steel barrier, smash into a chain-link fence, slide through a parking lot, slide across another lot filled with gravel, and smash into a second chain-link fence.”

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“It was a train smash,” a former senior Luxottica executive told me.

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"My life was an absolute train smash," she says.

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