Green’s Dictionary of Slang

completely, utterly, to the furthest extent.

1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 31: The lousy knave / Has stole the plumpest girl I have; / Frump’d and abus’d me all to muck.
1798		T. Morton Speed the Plough I ii: ash: Well, Peter, is the carriage much broke? peter: Smashed all to pieces.
1833		A. Greene Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth I 172: Well, that beats me all to pieces.
1839		C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 27: ‘I know him all to pieces,’ replied the gentleman.
1840		R. Barham ‘The Lord of Thoulouse’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 192: Why he’d beat [...] The great Northern Wizard himself all to sticks!
1840		Comic Almanack Apr. 222: When I came to know his game, I used to knock him all to sticks.
1847		C.F. Briggs Tom Pepper 79: I knew him all to pieces as soon as I caught sight of him.
1853		‘Philip Paxton’ A Stray Yankee in Texas 217: I can beat my sub all to sticks at breaking up faro-banks.
1856		C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 76: He means something – be quiet Carlo licking me all to pieces, – but what it is heaven only knows.
1865		M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 35: She could talk me all to pieces, even when I did my best.
1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1886		Eve. News (Sydney) 11 Sept. 9/1: Pleased all to Pieces [...] The news of [...] the Borenore extension of the western railway was received here with great satisfaction.
1888		‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 311: Joe takes Jim’s togs. They fitted him all to pieces.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict 4: All to Pieces, just the thing required.
1897		F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 67: I reckon he’d have kicked it all to flinders inside of a week.
1900		Seatle Post-Intelligencer (WA) 11 Feb. 1/1: [advert] J. Bull — ’Pon my soul, Paul, that’s the best thing [...] beats those Long Toms all to pieces.
1908		L.W. Payne Jr ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:iv 286: all to pieces, adv. Completely, surpassingly. ‘I can beat him playin’ drafts all to pieces’.
1911		L. Stone Jonah 113: I say, Joe, that bonnet would suit the kid all to pieces.