tear/rip sb/sth to shreds
to strongly criticize a person or something they do, think, or say:
The critics tore his performance to shreds.
to damage someone or something badly:
My trousers were torn to shreds when I fell off my bike.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pick holes in sth idiom
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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Damaging and spoiling