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单词 all to pieces
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(all) to pieces
e. (all) to pieces: to a great degree, completely, through and through. Now colloquial.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through
to the boneOE
through and throughc1225
out and outc1300
from top to tail1303
out and inc1390
(from) head to heel (also heels)c1400
(from) head to foot (also feet)c1425
from top to (into, unto) toec1425
to the skin1526
to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530
from first to last1536
up and down1542
whole out1562
to the pith1587
to the back1594
from A to (also until) Z1612
from clew to earing1627
from top to bottom1666
back and edge1673
all hollow1762
(all) to pieces1788
from A to Za1821
to one's (also the) fingertips1825
to one's fingernails1851
from tip to toe1853
down to the ground1859
to the backbone1864
right the way1867
pur sang1893
from the ground up1895
in and out1895
from soda (card) to hock1902
1788 ‘P. Pindar’ Proœmium in Wks. 366 'Tis most extraordinary then, all this is—It beats Pinetti's conjuring all to pieces.
1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. i. x. 114 I know the ground here all to pieces.
1892 W. G. Lyttle Ballycuddy 79 She wud a pleesed ye a' tae pieces, an' wud a been charmed tae a haen a minister fur a son-in-law.
1925 Dial. Notes 5 325 I knows un all to pieces.
1958 L. Uris Exodus iii. iii. 351 Ari! I love you to pieces!
1989 B. A. Mason Love Life 123 I just love him to pieces.
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all to pieces
a. Indicating a state or condition resulting from some process: So as to become: = into prep. 4a. Also colloquial (after the verb to be, in all to pieces or the like): Reduced to the condition of, having become.all to naught: see all to naught at all adv. 5, naught pron. 4.
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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. iv. §4 Ealle ða clifu..forburnan to ascan.
c1000 Ælfric Leviticus i. 6 And hyldon þa offrunga & ceorfon to sticcon.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 He is þet makeð twa to an.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4699 Al þa wunliche burh. heo barnden to duste.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) v. 14 After a ȝere it turnez to whyte.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xvi. 140 Brente to coles.
1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 31 Tops of Deeres hornes boyled to a jelly.
a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) iii. i. 41 The Glasses [of the coach] are all to bits.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 29 Forester..took the flowers..and pulled them to pieces.
1870 Eng. Mech. 28 Jan. 477/1 Shaped to an accurate figure.
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