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Definition

To utterly defeat or overwhelm.

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In Context

  • "Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding."
  • "You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces."
  • "Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces."
  • "They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions."
  • "Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces."
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Related Idioms

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hand someone their head

To destroy; to defeat utterly.

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to pieces

Completely, utterly.

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Simple, straightforward, clear, or certain.

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