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The phrase "a wreck for a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is in a poor condition or state, but without additional context, it is unclear when to use it.
Example: "After the storm, the boat was a wreck for a fishing vessel."
Alternatives: "a disaster for a" or "a mess for a".
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Emotionally, we'd been a wreck for a year.
I was a wreck for a few days when we were filming those scenes".
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Its replacement is a more modern Bentley, a Mark II Continental which he bought as a wreck for £1,500 before investing in a new two-seater convertible body.
"I was a wreck for three months afterwards.
I think mum will be a wreck for weeks.
Newman bought the house – which he describes as "a wreck" – for £460,000.
I've been a wreck for weeks knowing this day was coming.
While fans can appreciate all the winks and nudges, the film is a wreck for the uninitiated.
When in 2012 my husband and I decided to move back to London, we swapped our three-bedroom terraced house in Frome – which sold for £205,000 – for a wreck of a flat in Clapton, east London, and money was tight.
This has been, to use a technical term, something of a train wreck for a lot of American manufacturing workers.
Friends thought my relationship with him was folly, a certain train wreck; for a newly single woman who'd been stung by betrayal, nothing good could come from a periodic liaison with a married man.
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