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go to pieces
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.
That possibility disappeared when the Chargers’ season went to pieces.
“To let the baby out, you have to be willing to go to pieces,” she writes of childbirth.
A brilliant bunch, they’re nonetheless going to pieces, and pulling them back together has become Winter’s task — as well as the primary tension of this 600-page novel.
"You might go to pieces afterwards. But on the scene, you've got to be calm and collected, to get on and do the job that you're there to do."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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