go to pieces

How quickly everything could go to pieces in the world.

But in what seemed like no time at all everything began to go to pieces.

"But if everyone thought like you things would go to pieces at once."

And then, as systems do, his system went to pieces.

If she had gone to pieces, he'd probably have followed.

When that became clear- even to himself- he went to pieces.

Just try not to go to pieces, or I will, too.

And now that I got it, the world seems to be going to pieces all around me.

You want me to go to pieces, to show that I'm a good guy?

It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis, then.

One hit, and the whole frame would go to pieces.

That's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born.

One wrong move, Daniel thought, and everything will go to pieces around me.

He'd been going to pieces for days, and hardly knew what he was about.

He talked of the language going to pieces "before our eyes".

There was about a half second of silence and then everything went to pieces.

Christ, I never saw a guy go to pieces like that before.

I just let myself go to pieces after this awful thing.

She went to pieces as we watched; I saw no sign of any men.

I must have gone to pieces, for he slapped me a couple of times.

A good opening chapter, after which everything goes to pieces.

Was it not liable to go to pieces at any moment?

What she did notice was the Soviet line beginning to go to pieces.

I mean that trouble he got into, going to pieces after his wife and kid died.

"It's hard for me to see how they can go to pieces in the context of a strong economy," he said.