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in tatters

in tatters phrase: badly torn in many places; in shreds.

Phrase

in tatters

  1. Badly torn in many places; in shreds.
  2. (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

in tatters meaning in Malayalam

in tatters in Malayalam

tattered, ragged, torn
കീറത്തുണികളോടെ, അലവല, കീറിപ്പറിഞ്ഞ വസ്ത്രമായ, കിഴിഞ്ഞ, കിഴുത്തവീണ, കീറലുള്ള
on the rocks, in ruins, destroyed
തകർച്ചയിൽ, അങ്ങേയറ്റം മോശമായി സ്ഥിതിയിൽ, പണസംബന്ധമായി വലിയ വിഷമത്തിൽ, നിർദ്ധനം, നാശോന്മുഖം, തകർച്ചയുടെ വക്കിൽ

Questions about in tatters

What does in tatters mean?
In tatters means badly torn in many places; in shreds.
What is in tatters in Malayalam?
In tatters in Malayalam is കീറത്തുണികളോടെ, അലവല, കീറിപ്പറിഞ്ഞ വസ്ത്രമായ. See In tatters meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in tatters?
In tatters is a phrase.

Words near in tatters in the dictionary

  1. in sunder
  2. in suspense
  3. in sync
  4. in tact
  5. in tandem
  6. in tatters
  7. in tears
  8. in terms of
  9. in terrorem
  10. in terrorem clause
  11. in terrorem clauses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in tatters (page history and authors); in tatters (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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