| 单词 | to fall to pieces |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall to pieces d. to fall to pieces: (a) to break up, come apart, disintegrate; also figurative; (b) colloquial (now Australian), to give birth. ΚΠ 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. 204 If..you should take vp the wooden mat, it woild presently crack and fall to peeces. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 133 The casual slipping out of a Pin had made several parts of his Clock fall to pieces. 1703 T. D'Urfey Old Mode & New i. i. 14 She has all the Symptoms of Maturity that are possible, and burn me like a Toast, if I did not rise three times thinking she would fall to pieces last night. 1750 P. Shaw Reflector iii. 291 The Athenian State was still subject to the same Weaknesses as before; and fell to Pieces even in the Life-time of its Founder. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xix. 355 The..chrysalis..also, in its turn, dies; its dead and brittle husk falls to pieces. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 212 Anybody can say what's the matter wi' yew wi' 'af a oy. Ye'r a-gooin' to fall to paces. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 28 Fall to pieces,..to undergo confinement, to give birth to a child. 1990 Illustr. London News Summer 70/3 The lower parts of two sarcophagi were found to be broken and the mummies they contained had fallen to pieces. < as lemmas |
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