East Coast operations, he says now, were in "a total meltdown."

If a grey squirrel is spotted near a red sanctuary there's a total meltdown and it's treated like a national emergency!

In 90 minutes, he had gone from contender to afterthought, a total meltdown.

Your child picks the worst possible moment to have a complete and total meltdown.

The players didn't, the owners went away angry and a total meltdown in negotiations nearly occurred.

"When that room burned down, it was like a total meltdown," he said.

Nor would they have acted in a manner that led the world and prevented a total global meltdown.

The commission, said another Administration official, is now in a state of "total meltdown."

Our campaign finance system is in total meltdown.

An accident would affect the whole of Europe and the longer these reactors are working the greater the likelihood of total meltdown.