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German
Noun
Schutt und Asche f (genitive Schutt und Asche, no plural)
- rubble, ruins, wrack and ruin
1835, Eduard Heinel, Geschichte des Preußischen Staates und Volkes, page 739:Tausend vierhundert Häuser sanken in Schutt und Asche, ein Opfer des Brotneides und der kaufmännischen Eifersucht, die ihre Handelsvortheile in die alten Gränzen der Stadt sperren wollte (1455).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)