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Meanings of go to pieces in English

Lose one's emotional or mental composure.

Usage of go to pieces in English
1
By this time I believe Andy was about to go to pieces.
Ghosts
2
I saw you buried in the graveyard you'd let go to pieces.
The Abandoned Room
3
She would inevitably go to pieces if left balanced upon the ridge.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passeng...
4
If my system is depressed I'd go to pieces altogether without it.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
5
Look at Reenie, she's about to go to pieces as it is.
Real life & liars
6
I hate to see a man of your age go to pieces.
The Seventh Noon
7
Of course we expected Jerrold to go to pieces, but nobody else.
From the Ranks
8
You look so pulled down, you might go to pieces any moment.
The Home and the World
9
He seemed, as it were, to go to pieces at her cry.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
10
Encouraging them with lying smiles, she watched her work go to pieces.
Main Street
11
But she may break up and go to pieces, added old Jerry.
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands
12
Guys break up, break down, go to pieces lots of different ways.
Planet of the Damned
13
It explains why marriages go to pieces and affairs come to grief.
The Price She Paid
14
Didn't it go to pieces at the first assault of the world?
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
15
I hate to see a man go to pieces as Benson's doing.
The Intriguers
16
And if I found myself in that situation, I'd probably go to pieces.
The Elephant Vanishes
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Go to pieces through the time
Go to pieces across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common