train smash

noun

1. informal.
   a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash )

Example Sentences

Suddenly, a freight train smash on the bait.

From Los Angeles Times

I'm surprised the DEA didn't arrest him immediately after that coked up train smash.

From Salon

A California Highway Patrol officer who witnessed the crash said he saw “the train smash into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, smash into a steel barrier, smash into a chain-link fence, slide through a parking lot, slide across another lot filled with gravel, and smash into a second chain-link fence.”

From Fox News

“It was a train smash,” a former senior Luxottica executive told me.

From The Guardian

"My life was an absolute train smash," she says.

From BBC