go to pieces
Example Sentences
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"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
But when temperatures reach into triple digits, people go to pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017
“Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?” Lincoln asked a special session of Congress, that July.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 9, 2017
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2011
But she’s not sorry at all, I’m sure of it, and I don’t want to go to pieces in front of her.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
