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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Wreck

She is a wreck about what happened at the wedding.

what does "wreck" mean?

I know wreck is used like this
My car got wrecked in car accident.
But I'm sure the sentence doesn't have that meaning.
  

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Hi It's a common metaphor or idiom: after the wedding, she felt like the car that got wrecked. She felt broken and unable to go on Dave

— Dave_anon

  • Hi It's a common metaphor or idiom: after the wedding, she felt like the car that got wrecked.
  • She felt broken and unable to go on Dave
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Hi

It's a common metaphor or idiom: after the wedding, she felt like the car that got wrecked. She felt broken and unable to go on

Dave
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Broadly speaking, the term 'wreck' means 'in a very bad condition'.
eg My hair is a wreck.
eg She was a wreck after her divorce.



In this case, it means that she is emotionally distraught about what happened at the wedding.
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