in tatters en · X
Meanings
- Badly torn in many places; in shreds.
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(figuratively) Ruined, destroyed, wrecked.
Its financial plans for 2020-24, published last December, lie in tatters. TfL Chief Financial Officer Simon Kilonback told his board in June: "It is unlikely, even with significant external support, that we will return to any similar plan or levels of investment in the medium term."
2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 45: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.
2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2021:
Translations (7)
fi riekaleina (ruined, wrecked) · es hecho jirones (badly torn in many places) · fi riekaleina (badly torn in many places) · it a brandelli (badly torn in many places) · es hecho jirones (ruined, wrecked) · pl podarty (badly torn in many places) · pl zniszczony (ruined, wrecked)