Collapsed and woke in thong that's tight (4,2,7)
I believe the answer is:
come to nothing
'collapsed' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'woke in thong that's tight' is the wordplay.
'woke' becomes 'cometo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'that's tight' is an anagram indicator (tight can mean drunk).
'in'+'thong'='inthong'
'inthong' is an anagram of 'nothing'.
'cometo'+'nothing'='COME TO NOTHING'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for come to nothing that I've seen before include "Turn out a failure" , "Fail" , "Result in failure" .)