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go to pieces

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Definition of go to pieces

as in crack

to yield to mental or emotional stress After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces.

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Previous ceasefire talks either failed or the truces quickly fell apart.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Later, a former professional boxer and a local politics kingmaker took over, but things fell apart around the time of the FBI’s raid on the property.

— Lauren Mechling, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of fall apart

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Conditionality works best when the United States remains engaged enough for its partners to care about losing it.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
Trump’s endless war and its global economic destruction isn’t helping the North Carolina apple farmer who lost it all in Hurricane Helene.

— S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

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