A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
A sudden or unexpected failure.
Someone (especially a woman) who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin.
The aftermath of a train crash.
A disaster, especially one which is large in scale and readily seen by public observers.
To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.