go to pieces

Idioms  

1. Experience an emotional or mental breakdown, as in When she heard of his death she went to pieces. [Late 1800s] For a synonym, see fall apart, def. 2.

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go to pieces

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017

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

"Every time I hear it I go to pieces," she gushes.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2015

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