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go to pieces

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go to pieces
to lose confidence in yourself and feel you have no control over events. After he and Edna divorced, Art went to pieces. His world fell to pieces in 1966 when civil war broke out in Nigeria.
Related vocabulary: fall apart
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of fall to pieces (= separate into small parts)
See also: piece


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You should have seen the wave go to pieces and scatter
Your society of slaves - of, by, and for, slaves - must inevitably weaken and go to pieces as the life which composes it weakens and goes to pieces.
Besides, when I was in Petersburg I felt (I can this to you) that the whole affair would go to pieces without me- everyone was pulling his own way.
 
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