fall to bits

"The place is probably falling to bits," he said to himself.

Belgium is about to fall to bits and the rest will follow.

Seeing that she was in good hands and not falling to bits, I went back to bed.

I have all her books and they are falling to bits, evidence of frequent use.

However, if it's something you're not very confident and sure about, quite often the presence of other people makes you fall to bits.

The raft fell to bits as it hit the water.

Everything is suddenly falling to bits, first Joshua going off to war and now this.

'If that's going to happen every time, the whole thing'll fall to bits in a week.

She reached to take the heart and it crumbled, fell to bits.

What a shame to let it fall to bits like that."

Well, you can imagine, the thing just fell to bits as soon as I sat in it.

I didn't want to work on at Miles' because his piano was falling to bits."

But if it got out, there would be panic and everything could fall to bits.'

It falls to bits after hardly any years at all.'

Within a decade these cheapjack houses will be falling to bits.

Fire all the guns together, Sharpe, and the bloody ship would fall to bits!

One more good push and they'll fall to bits."

We thought it would be a lovely life in the Outside and now it's all falling to bits!'

"After all, the beds are still good, even if the bedclothes fall to bits!

'Yes, that's all - some old cottage fallen to bits.

"No," she said shortly, her temper finally shattering and falling to bits.

Look - there's some funny old machine they must have used - all rusty and falling to bits."

When it fell to bits they were calm enough to get it right on the second try."

When his previous gloves finally fell to bits.

"There are curtains there - almost falling to bits, I think!"