go to pieces
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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
"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
She would make a little gain and then go to pieces.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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