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Definition of Go to pieces
1. Verb. Lose one's emotional or mental composure. "She fell apart when her only child died"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To Pieces
Literary usage of Go to pieces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee: A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1888)
"To what shore shall it go, to a fertile bank or a barren beach? or will it go to
pieces? Let me try to do my duty, whether I be victor or victim. ..."
2. London: Critical Notes on the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection by John Charles Van Dyke (1914)
"Every modern painter knows how his picture, that looked so well in his studio,
may "go to pieces" on an exhibition wall because of its being ..."
3. Stephen M. White: Californian, Citizen, Lawyer, Senator. His Life and His by Stephen Mallory White, Robert Woodland Gates, Leroy E. Mosher (1903)
"... found necessary to solicit the interposition of the United States to preserve
that which every nation must be able to enforce or go to pieces — order. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The glass used in exterior windows, great or small, will go to pieces when ...
Granite, marble, and limestone will surely go to pieces when exposed to a hot ..."
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