shambles
noun/ˈʃæmblz/
/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.
Extra Examples- Our defending was a complete shambles.
- The economy was in a shambles last year.
- a place which is dirty or untidy synonym mess
- The house was a shambles.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘meat market’): plural of earlier shamble ‘stool, stall’, of West Germanic origin, from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum ‘bench’.
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