go to pieces

They're a defence that goes to pieces at the drop of a hat.

"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.

That possibility disappeared when the Chargers’ season went to pieces.

“To let the baby out, you have to be willing to go to pieces,” she writes of childbirth.

A brilliant bunch, they’re nonetheless going to pieces, and pulling them back together has become Winter’s task — as well as the primary tension of this 600-page novel.