break into pieces

"We all gasped when he threw it," he laughs, explaining how they were certain it would break into pieces when it landed and his fellow officer would then "kill Shane MacGowan".

Break into pieces when ready to serve or store.

A lot of those injuries come from what are called “cluster bombs”—munitions that get dropped from the air and break into pieces, hitting multiple targets in one shot.

Anyone who has ever baked a cake knows the despair of trying to turn it out of the pan, only to see it stick or break into pieces.

Then, in 2010, physicists Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius used a computer simulation to show that the outer surface of black holes could break into pieces and leave behind naked singularities.