A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.
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Shipwreck
/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
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A bad wife turns her husband into a shipwreck.
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The passage illustrates Robinson Crusoe's landing on a wild desert island after his shipwreck.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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