1. shambles - Noun
2. shambles - Verb
a building where animals are butchered
a condition of great disorder
Source: WordNetOnce there were islands all a-sprout with palms: and coral reefs and sands as white as milk. What is there now but a vast shambles of the heart? Filth, squalor, and a world of little men. Mervyn Peake
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. William Gaddis
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. George Will
The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. Frank Dobson
No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be. Italian Proverb