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单词 to pieces
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to pieces
a. to pieces: into fragments; apart, asunder; (figurative) into a state of disorganization, confusion, or ruin.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase]
in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275
(all) to shiversc1275
to piecesc1300
asundera1325
to set in sunderc1325
in sunderc1390
in, into shredsc1400
in small1419
in piecemeal?a1425
in piecemealsa1470
by piecemeals1576
in shivers1589
in or into splinters1612
c1300 St. Oswald (Laud) 24 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 46 And to-brak it al to smale peces.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 790 (MED) On þe scholder he smot þe bor; His spere barst to pises þore.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6542 (MED) Þe tables þat in hand he bare To pees [a1400 Fairf. in peces] he þam brak.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) 1761 (MED) Houndis myght gnawyn him to pecis.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxvii. 419 Our shyp brast all to pecys.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. C2 They make them victuall..by boyling them all to pieces into a broth.
1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 46 It shall breake to peeces, like a pot-sheard.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 321/1 Others have a softer Shell, or a tender or brittle Crust: which are easily bruised and broken to peeces.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 16 Pulling the Building to pieces after it is begun.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 144 She has huffed poor Mr. Williams all to-pieces.
1815 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. (1930) II. 82 Every sort of vegetable which, like cabbage, spinage or sorrel, is cut to pieces and dressed with Cayenne pepper.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xix We should tumble to pieces without you.
1923 H. Crane Let. 21 July (1965) 140 The center of such pain as would tear me to pieces to tell you about.
1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 46 The trailer just fell off the back of the truck that was towing it and got smashed to pieces.
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(all) to pieces
e. (all) to pieces: to a great degree, completely, through and through. Now colloquial.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through
to the boneOE
through and throughc1225
out and outc1300
from top to tail1303
out and inc1390
(from) head to heel (also heels)c1400
(from) head to foot (also feet)c1425
from top to (into, unto) toec1425
to the skin1526
to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530
from first to last1536
up and down1542
whole out1562
to the pith1587
to the back1594
from A to (also until) Z1612
from clew to earing1627
from top to bottom1666
back and edge1673
all hollow1762
(all) to pieces1788
from A to Za1821
to one's (also the) fingertips1825
to one's fingernails1851
from tip to toe1853
down to the ground1859
to the backbone1864
right the way1867
pur sang1893
from the ground up1895
in and out1895
from soda (card) to hock1902
1788 ‘P. Pindar’ Proœmium in Wks. 366 'Tis most extraordinary then, all this is—It beats Pinetti's conjuring all to pieces.
1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. i. x. 114 I know the ground here all to pieces.
1892 W. G. Lyttle Ballycuddy 79 She wud a pleesed ye a' tae pieces, an' wud a been charmed tae a haen a minister fur a son-in-law.
1925 Dial. Notes 5 325 I knows un all to pieces.
1958 L. Uris Exodus iii. iii. 351 Ari! I love you to pieces!
1989 B. A. Mason Love Life 123 I just love him to pieces.
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