go to pieces

Example Sentences

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"You might go to pieces afterwards. But on the scene, you've got to be calm and collected, to get on and do the job that you're there to do."

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2022

But when temperatures reach into triple digits, people go to pieces.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2017

“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

We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011

I walked to my room and shut the door, slammed it really, so I could be free to go to pieces privately.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer