go to pieces

Example Sentences

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The first 2014 entry convinced the audience to buy that Keanu Reeves’ assassin would go to pieces over a puppy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

"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

The miracle is their ability to function at all, and to not go to pieces when every move hangs between life and death.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2016

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

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011

We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque