cut to bits

Instead, we’ve mostly tasked police with filling in for the social safety net we’ve cut to bits — to deal with the fallout of addiction or respond to people in mental health crisis.

But two weeks later General Teófilo Vargas was cut to bits by machetes in an ambush and Colonel Aureliano Buendía assumed the main command.

Hyon Yong-chol, head of North Korea’s military, was supposedly cut to bits by blasts from an anti-aircraft gun last year.

“Two sets of reins chawed to pieces; a throat latchet gone; three saddles with holes eaten through them, and two bridles cut to bits, all because of a little carelessness!”

He had been in innumerable small actions since Mons, and had seen whole regiments cut to bits.