all to pieces adv.
completely, utterly, to the furthest extent.
![]() | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 31: The lousy knave / Has stole the plumpest girl I have; / Frump’d and abus’d me all to muck. | |
![]() | Speed the Plough I ii: ash: Well, Peter, is the carriage much broke? peter: Smashed all to pieces. | |
![]() | Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth I 172: Well, that beats me all to pieces. | |
![]() | Adventures of Harry Franco I 27: ‘I know him all to pieces,’ replied the gentleman. | |
![]() | Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 192: Why he’d beat [...] The great Northern Wizard himself all to sticks! | ‘The Lord of Thoulouse’ in|
![]() | Comic Almanack Apr. 222: When I came to know his game, I used to knock him all to sticks. | |
![]() | Tom Pepper 79: I knew him all to pieces as soon as I caught sight of him. | |
![]() | A Stray Yankee in Texas 217: I can beat my sub all to sticks at breaking up faro-banks. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Adventures of Fudge Fumble 35: She could talk me all to pieces, even when I did my best. | |
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![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Robbery Under Arms (1922) 311: Joe takes Jim’s togs. They fitted him all to pieces. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict 4: All to Pieces, just the thing required. | |
![]() | Voyage of the Rattletrap 67: I reckon he’d have kicked it all to flinders inside of a week. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | DN III:iv 286: all to pieces, adv. Completely, surpassingly. ‘I can beat him playin’ drafts all to pieces’. | ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in|
![]() | Jonah 113: I say, Joe, that bonnet would suit the kid all to pieces. |