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Carpal Tunnel
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Wrack and ruin. That's how I'd spell the phrase.
Here are some interesting definitions of the verb "to rack" since I use the phrase "racked my brain" occasionally:
"1 : to torture on the rack 2 : to cause to suffer torture, pain, or anguish 3 a : to stretch or strain violently <racked his brains> b : to raise (rents) oppressively c : to harass or oppress with high rents or extortions 4 : to work or treat (material) on a rack 5 : to work by a rack and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract <rack a camera> 6 : to seize (as parallel ropes of a tackle) together 7 : to place (as pool balls) in a rack intransitive senses : to become forced out of shape or out of plumb"
From MW online.
Favorite definition of rack as a noun: a mass of usually broken-up wind driven clouds
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