go to pieces
Example Sentences
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"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025
The freedom to act freely means the freedom to screw up royally, a theme that Rosebrock touches on in the play’s second half, when things, somewhat predictably, go to pieces.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
But when temperatures reach into triple digits, people go to pieces.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2017
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011
“I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
