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

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

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

“That’s wonderful thinking, Inigo,” Fezzik said, loud and calmly; but, inside, he was starting to go to pieces.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman