Green’s Dictionary of Slang

exhausted, collapsed, bankrupt.

1622		Massinger Virgin-Martyr II iii: spun.: The petticoat of her estate is unlaced, I confess. hir.: Yes, and the smock of her charity is now all to pieces.
1667		Pepys Diary 29 Aug. n.p.: I find by all hands that the Court is at this day all to pieces, every man of a faction of one sort or another.
1678		J. Ray Proverbs (2nd edn) 89: A Bankrupt. He’s all to pieces.
1687		C. Sedley Bellamira IV i: sil.: But what of my Mistress and Dangerfield? eust.: They are all to pieces. sil.: About what? eust.: About a young Maid Dangerfield gave her: nothing will serve but he’ll have her again.
1811		Austen Sense and Sensibility (1970) 168: Fifty thousand pounds! and by all accounts it won’t come before it’s wanted; for they say he’s all to pieces.
1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 391: jerry [...] now positively began to droop – his spirits were getting very low – he was ‘out of wind’ – ‘all to pieces’ – the day and night work had been too much for him, and, all of a sudden, he was completely ‘beat to a stand-still’.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 280: Splinter is splintered! [...] he is all to pieces.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
1883		press cutting in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 196/2: She was as pale as death, and trembling from head to foot. He was perfectly satisfied that what she had described took place, for when she came in she was ‘all to pieces’.
1884		Echo 7 Apr. 3/1: The Oxford men were now all to pieces! Their boat was full of water [F&H].
1893		N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 5: You’re all to pieces, old fellow.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict 4: All to Pieces, in sporting parlance, means want of form in horses.
1911		J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 12: What’s making Billy fight so dead? / He’s all to pieces. Is he blown?
1924		G.H. Lawson Dict. of Aus. Words And Terms 🌐 ALL TO PIECES — Decadence. To fall away.
1926		M. West Sex (1997) II ii: Come on, pull yourself together, you’re all to pieces.
1935		A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 143: I’m all to pieces.
1967		K. Kolb Getting Straight 69: Make me go all to pieces.