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in tatters

phrase

Definitions

  1. Badly torn in many places

    Badly torn in many places; in shreds.

  2. Ruined, destroyed, wrecked.

    • Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters.

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