Thanks to the Bank it's a crisis; in the eurozone it's a total catastrophe.

"Either total catastrophe or no effect whatsoever," Fiona said.

Compared to their successful debut season, 1992 was a total catastrophe for Jordan.

"But our greatest goal now is to avoid a total catastrophe."

Suddenly, he had been confronted with this threat of total catastrophe.

This was going to be a total catastrophe!

And a total catastrophe in our line of work.

"If the people who are responsible for making justice don't bear their responsibility, they will push the country toward total catastrophe," he said.

"You've heard so much about it and there's this vision of 'Oh, my God, total catastrophe, everyone going, death all over the place.' "

My speech was a total catastrophe; I forgot my notes, and the microphone wouldn't work.