cut to pieces

present singular third person cuts to pieces · participle present cutting to pieces

1. To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces.
2. idiomatictransitiveTo utterly defeat or overwhelm.

   Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.

   2010, Vice Magazine, The World According to Vice, →ISBN

   4 more examples

   Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding.

   2000, Papa Roach, Last Resort

   You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.

   2008, Samuel John Hazo, This Part of the World: A Novel, →ISBN, page 91

   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.

   2012, David Henry Montgomery, The Leading Facts of English History, →ISBN

   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.

   2015, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards 18-20: The American Heroes Triad, →ISBN