Ruin Phrases

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
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• The Waste Land
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Toxic waste
• Train wreck
• Waste away
• Waste not, want not
• Waste of space
• Waste of time
• What's the damage?
• What's your poison?