lay waste (to (something))

to destroy something.

Last night, rabbits laid waste to the lettuce I was going to pick today.

The army laid waste to the countryside as it moved south.

• cast off something
• cast pearls before swine
• cast your eye over
• cast your eye over something
• cast your lot with
• cast your lot with someone
• cast your lot with something
• cast your mind back
• cast your net wide
• cast your net wider
• cat and mouse game
• catch 22
• catch as catch can
• catch-as-catch-can
• catch breath
• catch cold
• catch dead to rights
• catch death!
• catch death of cold!
• catch eye
• catch hell
• catch in the act
• catch it
• catch napping
• catch off guard