undoingnoun [ S ]
uk/ʌnˈduː.ɪŋ/us/ʌnˈduː.ɪŋ/formalthe cause of someone's failure, or of someone's loss of power or money:
Greed has been the undoing of many a businessman.
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slim pickings
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
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