go to pieces
Example Sentences
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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
Faces in a crowd terrify me - they jump out, familiar for an instant, and I go to pieces.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2016
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2011
And then everything seemed to go to pieces.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
