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Meanings of go to rack in English

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Usage of go to rack in English
1
A city without people will always go to rack and ruin.
The Irish Times
2
Your uncle let the shooting go to rack and ruin after Harold's death.
Marcella
3
I don't know but what everything will go to rack while I'm away.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 / A Maga...
4
Why had Mr. Lynch let the place go to rack and ruin, I wondered.
In a gilded cage
5
He let the whole place go to rack and ruin.
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
6
It has been allowed to go to rack and ruin while we were away.
A True Friend: A Novel
7
I'd rather go to rack and ruin on my own.
The Flanders Panel
8
How am I to live abroad, if my property go to rack and ruin?
The Flight of the Shadow
9
It was left to go to rack 'n' ruin.
The lake
10
The Army will now go to rack and ruin.
The Man on the Box
11
The school would certainly go to rack and ruin.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 18...
12
I'm afraid the whole country will go to rack and ruin if you leave him.
The Three Commanders
13
Once here, his sole thought was good living; he let everything go to rack and ruin.'
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
14
We are at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
15
You'd soon go to rack and ruin here with the neighbors coming in and littering everything up.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
16
And if there was nobody in it, it would all go to rack and ruin; wouldn't it?
The Small House at Allington
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