take to pieces
Example Sentences
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Wherefore it is not sufficient to write verses merely in proper language; which if you take to pieces, any person may storm in the same manner as the father in the play.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
And brains, auntie, you've no idea how curious they are; I haven't got to them yet, but I long to, and uncle is going to show me a manikin that you can take to pieces.
From Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May
The modern mind is more like a motor-car on a lonely road which two amateur motorists have been just clever enough to take to pieces, but are not quite clever enough to put together again.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
"And yet," said she, "you have begun to take to pieces and destroy our family, as I have destroyed this flower."
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
She's so light she will float on a good heavy dew, and then she's so easy to take to pieces and pack away.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson
