英语词汇“all to pieces”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

all to pieces

释义

piece /pēs/

noun

A part or portion of anything, esp detached
A separate lump, mass or body of any material, considered as an object (in Scots without of following)
A distance
A span of time
A single article
A definite quantity, eg of cloth or paper
A literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic composition
A production, a specimen of work
An example
An exemplification or embodiment
A sandwich or a little bread, buttered or not, esp as a lunch (Scot)
A gun
A portion (obsolete)
A wine cup (obsolete)
A coin
A man in chess, draughts, or other game (in chess sometimes excluding pawns and the king)
A person, now usu (disrespectfully) a woman

transitive verb

To enlarge by adding a piece
To patch
To combine

intransitive verb

To have a between-meal snack (US sl)

combining form

Consisting of a given number of separate parts, pieces, members, etc, as in three-piece suite

ORIGIN: OFr piece, from LL pecia, petium a fragment, a piece of land (thought to be of Celtic (Brythonic) origin); cf patch¹, peat², petty, and Pit- in place names

pieceˈless adjective

Not made of pieces

pieceˈmeal adverb

(meal¹in sense of ‘measure’) in pieces
To pieces
Bit by bit

adjective

Done bit by bit
Fragmentary

noun

A small piece
Bit by bit proceeding

transitive verb

To dismember

piecˈen transitive verb (dialect)

To join (esp broken threads in spinning)

piecˈener or piecˈer noun

A person who is employed in a spinning-factory to join broken threads

piece goods plural noun

Textile fabrics made in standard lengths

piece rate noun

A fixed rate paid according to the amount of work done

pieceˈwork noun

Work paid for by the piece or quantity, not by time

pieceˈworker noun

all to pieces or to pieces

Into a state of disintegration or collapse
Through and through, thoroughly (US)

a piece

Each

a piece of

An instance of
A bit of, something of

a piece of cake see under cake

a piece of one's mind

A frank outspoken reprimand

a piece of piss see under piss

go to pieces

To break up entirely (lit and figurative)
To lose completely the ability to cope with the situation

in pieces

In, or to, a broken-up state

of a piece

As if of the same piece, the same in nature
Homogeneous, uniform
In keeping, consistent (with with)

piece of eight see under eight

piece of goods (dialect; derogatory)

A woman

piece of work

A task
A fuss, ado
A person (usu with nasty, etc)

piece out

To eke out

piece together

To put together bit by bit

piece up

To patch up
Perh to incorporate in one's own share (Shakespeare)

say one's piece

To contribute one's opinion

the piece (Scot)

Apiece

to pieces see all to pieces above.

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