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单词 come (or fall) apart at the seams
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come (or fall) apart at the seams

informal (Of a person or system) be in a very poor condition and near to collapse: the attitude of the airport guard was symptomatic of a system falling apart at the seams...
  • Journalists from all the broadsheets declared that the figures didn't bear up to close scrutiny, fell apart at the seams, and were a ‘swamp of muddled thinking’.
  • Arafat came out unscathed, but the fragile relationship between Israel and the Palestinians fell apart at the seams.
  • Ireland put it under pressure and it fell apart at the seams.
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