road to ruin
Course toward disaster
A road to ruin is a course of action leading to destruction, failure, or disaster.
The phrase implies a path that seems appealing or easy but ends badly: Gambling was his road to ruin.
Often used as a warning: That kind of spending is the road to ruin.
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- path of destructionRoute marked by ruin
- recklessnessCareless disregard for danger
- slippery slopeArgument predicting inevitable escalation
- downward spiralSelf-reinforcing deterioration
despair · greed · fatal flaw · downfall · house of cards · train wreck · redemption · regret · cautionary tale · bankruptcy · corruption · tragedy · arrogance · fool's errand · catastrophe · hubris · warning signs · collapse
- travel idiomsin the same boat, miss the boat, crossroads, smooth sailing, take the wheel
- doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
- moral decaymoral decay, moral decline, moral collapse, moral bankruptcy, degeneration
road to ruinupward trajectory
bright future · onward and upward · ticket to success · golden opportunity · rising tide
road to ruinstraight and narrow
Morally correct conduct
righteous path · narrow gate · moral high ground · moral compass
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