shot to pieces
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The players' confidence has been shot to pieces and they're 11 points off top spot.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
Though his short-term memory is now "shot to pieces", Mr Scott said, Dunn's recollection "of things 45 years ago is as good as any".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2021
But in the performances of those nations, and in particular the last two standing, New Zealand and Australia, came the perfect definition of perfection: producing nerveless rugby when nerves should be shot to pieces.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2016
Who, seriously, would be taken aback now if Villa, confidence shot to pieces, could not clamber out of the Premier League's quicksands?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
They were boys and men past middle age, and two veterans who had been shot to pieces in Russia.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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