Phrase thesaurus
Ruin Phrases
47 phrases and expressions related to "ruin".
Phrases
- A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
- Admit defeat
- All to cock (ruined or shambolic)
- Bang goes nothing
- Big Poison (Nickname of baseball player Paul Waner)
- Brand damage
- Bugger up
- Cock it up
- Collateral Damage (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
- Collateral damage
- Complete shambles
- Crushing defeat
- Damage limitation exercise
- Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
- Don't waste your breath
- For mash get Smash (Cadbury's Smash advertising slogan)
- Go to the dogs
- Haste makes waste
- Lay waste to
- Little Poison (Nickname of Lloyd Waner)
- Make a balls of something
- Morally bankrupt
- Mother's ruin
- Name your poison
- Nervous wreck
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- Poison dwarf
- Poison pen letter
- Pull the rug from under your feet
- Put a damper on it
- Put a spanner in the works
- Put the kibosh on something
- Road to ruin
- Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
- Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat