“Go to rack and ruin”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English rhymes two words for destruction; “rack” is an old form of “wrack”. Slovenian goes off to whistle to the crayfish, iti rakom žvižgat.

French falls to the distaff, tomber en quenouille. The distaff, used to spin wool, stood for women's work, and the phrase first meant an estate passing to a female heir, which in a male-line society was thought to mean its decline.