John Sununu

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.

American Politician

Kapil Sibal

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

Indian Politician

William Gaddis

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

American Novelist

George Will

Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

Journalist

W. Edwards Deming

In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

American Scientist

Zig Ziglar

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

American Author

H. P. Lovecraft

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

Priti Patel

Only Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit deal for Britain, defeat Jeremy Corbyn's divisive shambles of an opposition, and govern the United Kingdom in the national interest.

British Politician

Frank Dobson

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Atishi

Government school education across India is in shambles.

Often used to describe situations messed up figuratively, not literally.

Figurative Use

Used in casual conversation, not formal contexts.

Informal Tone

Refers to disorder in plans or situations, not always physical spaces.

Not Physical Mess

Understand it was once a physical place where butchers worked.

Historical Origin

Rare in modern language, primarily in historical contexts.

Archaic Term

Used to express strong reactions to widespread destruction.

Emotional Impact

Can describe the impact of events on communities or lives.

Beyond Physical Damage

 in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch,

A tale of mental illness...

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Africa’s rhyming history...

 She kept her cabin pretty clean. Now you walk into this place of shambles. It's like night and day. The house was just smashed.

Shambles

Figurative Use

Informal Tone

Not Physical Mess

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