"in tatters" meaning in English

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        "Badly torn in many places; in shreds."
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          "word": "a brandelli"
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          "ref": "2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters.",
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        "Ruined, destroyed, wrecked."
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        "(figurative) Ruined, destroyed, wrecked."
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