fall apart

The only way they would be sitting at home in October would be if they completely and utterly fell apart in a way that was all but unimaginable.

“Everyone assumed that this kind of thing would immediately fall apart,” Kitagawa said at a Kyoto University press conference on Wednesday.

Some hostages were freed in earlier exchanges, first under a cease-fire deal in November 2023 and another that started in January but fell apart in March.

It’s a compelling launch, even if the spotty show that unfolds in the next several rooms falls apart.

The so-called common platform of centrists and Republicans that have run the government since last year appears to have fallen apart.