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tear up

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tear someone up
Fig. to cause someone much grief. (See also tear someone apart.) The news of Tom's death really tore Bill up. Bad news tears up some people. Other people can take it calmly.
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tear something up

to rip someone or something to pieces. The two drunks tore the bar up in their brawling. The dog tore up the newspaper.
See also: tear, up
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Byline: By Ewing GRAHAME STEVE COLLINS knows all about ring wars - and he reckons Scot Kenny Anderson and Irishman Kenny Egan are about to tear up the ring again.
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If you send someone down a gravel road for 20 to 30 miles, it tear ups their car pretty well.
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NEW YORK -- TriOptima confirmed that the 12% decline in CDS notional outstandings announced today by ISDA is primarily due to its triReduce tear up cycles in the first half of 2008.
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