go to pieces
Example Sentences
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The first 2014 entry convinced the audience to buy that Keanu Reeves’ assassin would go to pieces over a puppy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
“Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?” Lincoln asked a special session of Congress, that July.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2017
"Every time I hear it I go to pieces," she gushes.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2015
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011
We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
