tear into

present singular third person tears into · participle present tearing into · past tore into · participle past torn into

1. To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.

   They tore into a stunned City and there was only a minute on the clock when Samir Nasri slipped Jack Wilshere into the area, the 19-year-old's left-foot pass to the far post agonisingly evading a lunging Van Persie.

   2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC

   Synonyms: lace into, lay into, light into, rip into