Go To Pieces (Verb)
Meaning
Lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died".
Classification
Verbs of feeling.
Examples
- The news of the divorce sent her best friend's emotional world to go to pieces.
- After losing her mother, the young girl began to go to pieces in front of her siblings.
- The stress of the financial crisis started to make the business owner go to pieces.
- When he received the terminal diagnosis, he started to go to pieces emotionally.
- His world went to pieces the day his wife told him she wanted a divorce.