The Shambles is an old street in York, England, with overhanging timber-built shops, now occupied by souvenir shops as opposed to the original butchers (see Slaughterhouse). The word comes from shammels, from the Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat.
Saint Margaret Clitherow once lived on this street (she was married to a butcher who owned a shop on it).
This is York (http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/insideout/attractions/shambles.html)
Example Usage of Shambles
jambochloe: Excited for tonight, gona be a Shambles though lol
kevinspenst: his head holds habits of abstraction that disguise feelings as thoughts but when he steps into the world the cognitive charade's in Shambles
xINTANx: I just cant remember January straight through December. My collective memories are in Shambles.
