go to pieces

Example Sentences

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The freedom to act freely means the freedom to screw up royally, a theme that Rosebrock touches on in the play’s second half, when things, somewhat predictably, go to pieces.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

But when temperatures reach into triple digits, people go to pieces.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2017

Faces in a crowd terrify me - they jump out, familiar for an instant, and I go to pieces.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2016

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

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011

I walked to my room and shut the door, slammed it really, so I could be free to go to pieces privately.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer