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Examples
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That would be too bad, although she seems like a car-wreck waiting to happen.
'Real Housewives of O.C.' recap: The girls return | EW.com 2009
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The scene is a beautiful car-wreck with Fragasso walking out of the venue and cursing the “actor dogs”.
[REVIEW] Best Worst Movie « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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He advertised for car-wreck victims in the pages of Vietnamese-language newspapers.
Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans Steve Hendrix 2010
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And you drew guffaws of approving laughter with your car-wreck metaphor, recently telling a crowd that those who differ with your approach are "standing up on the road, sipping a Slurpee" while you are "shoving" and "sweating" to fix the broken-down jalopy of state.
Stop Bashing Business, Mr. President Ken Langone 2010
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The scene is a beautiful car-wreck with Fragasso walking out of the venue and cursing the “actor dogs”.
[REVIEW] Best Worst Movie « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Conservative media outlets not only won't condemn Murdoch's abysmal corporate behavior but they can't even summon the courage to acknowledge the unfolding car-wreck of a story.
Eric Boehlert: The Murdoch Cesspool Eric Boehlert 2011
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When those reviews came out, we read with one eye open, as if peering through the window as you drove by a horrific car-wreck.
G.I. JOE: Rise of Cobra REVIEW « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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As television increasingly dominates our leisure and screen time, it has continued to spiral down toward base human fears and car-wreck peeping tom voyeurism.
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For his amused, appalled audience, Serin's car-wreck of a life -- impulsive trips to Australia, awful business deals, an increasingly frustrated young wife -- made him the poster child of the subprime real-estate disaster.
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If a teenager is in a car-wreck, half their classmates know about it within 2 hours (via text messaging and Facebook posts).
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