Tatters

Layla's reputation was in tatters.

Mennad's image was in tatters.

His reputation is in tatters.

The child's clothes were in tatters.

Morocco's economy is in tatters.

Wearing a cowboy hat and saddled with three small bags in tatters, Hughes said when he first announced his plans, no one was convinced he would make it this far.

My heart is in tatters.

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.