The phrase "a total breakdown of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a complete failure or collapse of a system, process, or situation.
Example: "The project faced a total breakdown of communication, leading to significant delays and misunderstandings."
Alternatives: "a complete failure of" or "an utter collapse of".
They depict a total breakdown of morale.
The Israeli government is making contingency plans for a total breakdown of the peace effort.
A total breakdown of self-control is the perfect backdrop for this bill.
Maybe they are afraid of a total breakdown of the EU".
But in the end the United States had to agree to two tracks to avoid a total breakdown of the talks.
Prowling Rome's streets and screaming out the name of their latest hero while wearing their threatening masks, they suggest a total breakdown of civil society.
I have to say, Wolf pretty much called it on this one, KP: Making a video in which you have a total breakdown, repress every element of your female sexuality and then dance around a massive American flag holding a machine gun was never going to win you many liberal feminist fans, was it?
That's how we got here — a near total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain, and now we either bail out the people who brought us here or risk a total systemic crash.
Data detailing the world's financial exposure to Greece give an indication of how a total breakdown between Greece and its creditors might play out.
And we know it from Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss's "Tiger Force", their investigation (first published in the Toledo Blade) of the atrocities committed in 1967-8 by an Army reconnaissance unit that slaughtered hundreds of civilians over a period of months.Kerney had watched the total breakdown of a unit.
For a land mass boasting large areas where light snowfall invariably prompts the total breakdown of local infrastructure, Britain seems to produce a surprising number of athletes who thrive in freezing conditions.
