car crash
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɑː kræʃ/us/ˈkɑːr kræʃ/aseriousaccidentinvolvingone or morecars:
车祸He waskilledinacarcrash.他死于车祸。
a traffic accident
- accidentAn accident on the M11 is blocking traffic in a northerly direction.
- collisionPolice responded to the collision and closed the road.
- head-onBoth drivers were injured in the head-on collision.
- shuntUKMy insurance company refused to pay out after my little shunt.
- crashA serious crash on the motorway yesterday led to its closure for two hours.
- car crashHe died in a car crash.
[usually singular]mainlyUKinformal
something thatfailscompletelyor goesextremelybadly:
彻底失败，及其糟糕At thattimemyprivatelifewas acarcrash.那时候我个人的生活及其糟糕。
It could have been anabsolutecarcrashbut Doloressteppedin andsavedtheday.情况糟透了，但德洛丽丝出手相助，挽回了局面。
Synonyms
dumpster fireUS
train wreck
On the road: accidents involving vehicles
- anti-collision
- bird strike
- brake
- crash-landing
- cropper
- derail
- derailment
- hit and run
- overshoot
- prang
- rear-end
- road toll
- RTA
- rubbernecking
- run(something)intosomething/someone
- runsomeone/somethingdown
- runsomeone/somethingover
- shunt
- stack
- stack up
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Failures
Idiom
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