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
"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
The freedom to act freely means the freedom to screw up royally, a theme that Rosebrock touches on in the play’s second half, when things, somewhat predictably, go to pieces.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2011
“I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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