tumble-down

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ramshackle, fall to the ground
topple, collapse

Williams has said, in the days following his firing by NPR, that a lot of his assumptions came tumbling down — he was a Liberal because he thought that Liberals were tolerant, open minded folk.

tumbledown
in disrepair; poorly maintained

They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.

tumble down
If a building tumbles down, it collapses or parts of it fall off, usually because it is old and no-one has taken care of it. The outer walls looked likely to tumble down in a stiff wind
tumbledown
A tumbledown building is in such a bad condition that it is partly falling down or has holes in it. = ramshackle. a tumbledown building is old and beginning to fall down
tumbledown
{s} shaky, dilapidated, rickety
tumbledown
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house
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