tatters — OET

tatters

plural noun

he was forced to wear tatters a beggar would scorn:

rags, scraps, shreds, bits, pieces, bits and pieces, torn pieces, ragged pieces, ribbons, clippings, fragments.

□ in tatters

1 his clothes were in tatters:

ragged, torn, ripped, frayed, split, tattered, in shreds, in bits, in pieces, worn down, worn out, worn to shreds, moth-eaten, falling to pieces, threadbare.

2 her marriage was in tatters:

ruined, in ruins, on the rocks, destroyed, finished, shattered, demolished, devastated, in disarray;

informal kaput, done for, toast.

tatters Oxford Dictionary of English