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fly apart

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fly apart
to break apart, throwing pieces around. Don't run the engine too fast or it will fly apart! Mary's bicycle wheel flew apart during the race.
See also: apart, fly


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Room 5 features some of the Bolsena paintings, in which one can only marvel at the extraordinary dynamic which holds together what should fly apart, while Room 6 is Twombly's blackboard answer to Minimalism.
Beginning seemingly at dawn and ending in total darkness, after a while shadowy objects begin to appear and then collectively proceed to fly apart or plummet to the ground--trees, cell phones, birds, human bodies, telephone poles--as if a tornado had whipped across the world destroying everything in its path.
It takes only a few minutes, and prevents what could be a very scary incident should your old springs break and fly apart.
 
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