train wreck
To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.
[…] basic fundamental communication steps must be achieved so not to train wreck the new employee.
train
UK /tɹeɪn/ US /tɹeɪn/
noun 11verb 7name 1
Definitions
noun
1
Elongated or trailing portion.
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].
2
Elongated or trailing portion.
[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.
A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
3
Elongated or trailing portion.
Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.
The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass
4
Elongated or trailing portion.
5
Elongated or trailing portion.
verb
1
To practice an ability.
She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
2
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
You can't train a pig to write poetry.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
3
To improve one's fitness.
I trained with weights all winter.
4
To proceed in sequence.
5
To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
noun
1
Treachery; deceit.
In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].
2
A trick or stratagem.
3
A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
4
A lure; a decoy.
5
A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
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