The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rack and ruin
Rack \Rack\, n. [See Wreck.] A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.]
Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.]
To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] ``All
goes to rack.''
--Pepys.
Wiktionary
rack and ruin
n. (context idiomatic English) Complete destruction
Usage examples of "rack and ruin".
The Perrys live in half of it - and the other half just goes to rack and ruin.
The Perrys live in half of itand the other half just goes to rack and ruin.
If now Barclay is replaced by Benigsen, all will go to rack and ruin, because Benigsen made an exhibition of his incapacity in 1807.
For him it was like having to go around and see other people's priceless antique cars driven to rack and ruin, mudsplattered, rusteaten.