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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wreck of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something or someone that is in a very poor or damaged condition, often emotionally or physically.
Example: "After the accident, his car was a wreck of a vehicle, barely recognizable."
Alternatives: "a mess of a" or "a disaster of a".
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Before I had a wreck of a car.
A wreck of a man, I leaped from a bridge, a window.
A couple bought a wreck of a plane on eBay to fix up.
DETROIT — Just a few years ago, as it plunged into bankruptcy, Chrysler was a wreck of a company.
He was a broken man, a wreck of a human being, and they left him to die in the gutter".
Liberia is still a wreck of a country, dirt poor, illiterate and corrupt, but these days it has elections that are free, fair, consequential and respected.
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The next year, he found a wreck of an old coal cellar and, with friends, built a bar.
The scale of the catastrophe became clear after three survivors who were rescued by the Italian Navy told aid workers 117 migrants had died in a wreck of an inflatable dinghy.
The icefish may be a wreck of ancient life, but it's a wonderful wreck.
It was a train wreck of a matchup.
Sadly, Iraq is a much divided wreck of a country.
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