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shambles    音标拼音: [ʃ'æmbəlz]
n. 肉店,屠宰场,混乱,废墟

肉店,屠宰场,混乱,废墟

shambles
n 1: a condition of great disorder
2: a building where animals are butchered [synonym: {abattoir},
{butchery}, {shambles}, {slaughterhouse}]

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "shambles":
Augean stables, Belsen, DMZ, abattoir, aceldama, battle line,
battle site, battlefield, battleground, bloodbath, blue ruin,
botch, botchery, breakup, butchering, butchery, carnage, chaos,
combat area, combat zone, concentration camp, consumption,
damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment,
despoliation, destruction, devastation, disaster, disintegration,
disorganization, disruption, dissolution, enemy line, field,
field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line,
gas chamber, hash, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, killing ground,
landing beach, line, line of battle, mess, mix-up, muddle, mull,
muss, occision, perdition, pigpen, pigsty, ravage, ruin, ruination,
seat of war, slaughter, slaughterhouse, slaughtering, spoliation,
stockyard, the front, theater, theater of operations,
theater of war, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin,
wreck, zone of communications


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  • nouns - Origin and usage of a shambles - English Language Usage . . .
    "Shambles" is one of the few singular nouns in English that blatantly resembles a plural noun What is the origin of "a shambles"? Why do we really need to prefix an "a" in front of "shambles"? Whi
  • etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The full Oxford English Dictionary just says the -cock part of ballcock, shuttlecock, comes from the male bird sense Which is ALSO the origin for cock = penis ( derivatives like cock-up = shambles) AND cock = stand up straight (as a fishing float, or cocky = overconfident)
  • Idiom meaning a shambles sounds like pass potch ?
    I'm looking for an idiom that means 'a shambles' or 'a whole mess of various things', and any other reverse definitions of 'a whole mess of various things' Perhaps "a mare's nest", which I've gat
  • Does English have any singularia tantum besides mass nouns?
    Singularia tantum and pluralia tantum are, respectively, nouns that have only a singular form and nouns that have only a plural form In English, we have a handful of pluralia tantum that are mass
  • Another word for a place being in ruins
    A shambles From the OED: 5b pl … a scene of disorder or devastation; a ruin; a mess orig U S 1926 P H de Kruif Microbe Hunters iii iv 83 Once more his laboratory became a shambles of cluttered flasks and hurrying assistants 1966 M R D Foot SOE in France viii 184 Helped the commandos to make a thorough shambles of the main dockyard This derives from another sense of shambles
  • scottish english - What is the meaning of clusterbourach? - English . . .
    The Scots loan takes on other meanings, but in the word clusterbourach it is simply a more emphatic way of calling something a "shambles" or a "mess" Can be spelled "bourach", "boorach", "burach"
  • What idiom could describe bureaucratic inefficiency?
    1 You could use " shambles " (OLD) shambles noun ˈʃæmblz [singular] (informal) a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding synonym mess The press conference was a complete shambles What a shambles! He’s made an absolute shambles of his career in a shambles: The government is in a shambles over Europe
  • Non-vulgar word for Clusterf**k? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
    Consider Omnishambles NOUN British informal A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations ‘anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums’ Origin Early 21st century: from omni- + shambles, first used in the British satirical
  • punctuation - Does the name of an addressees house need to go in . . .
    0 If someone lives at a house called 'Dunroamin' or 'Rose Cottage', or 'The Pig Sty', do you put it in inverted commas in the address on the envelope? e g do I write: Mr Mrs J Percival, 'The Shambles', Bedrock Rd, Little Snoring, postcode Or do I write: Mr Mrs J Percival, The Shambles, Bedrock Rd etc ?
  • What is the nearest British English equivalent to Dumpster Fire?
    The word shambles, with or without the omni-, was once all about a literally bloody mess The originals, still preserved in old British street names, were the stalls of medieval butchers whose wares of raw flesh and gore led to our modern use for something approaching carnage





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