PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be cut/torn to ribbons
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Her feet were cut to ribbons on the rocks.
be torn
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All but three of the current buildings would be torn down.
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Gould was torn between the need to preserve his specimens and the desire to keep them a secret.
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Huge gaps were torn in the Confederate line at every discharge.
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My thigh is torn , the bone is shattered, although I did not feel the shot that struck me.
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Serena is torn between her sisterly love and her annoyance with Stella's aggressive insecurity.
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Stella was torn between getting it right and being manhandled by Meredith.
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The whole must be torn out by the roots.
be torn apart
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Before their lives were torn apart , they were a happy family.
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He was torn apart as health and social security secretary and suffered demotion before resigning.
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He would be torn apart by the difference between the gravitational force on his head and his feet.
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In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.
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Parents who objected were torn apart as heretics.
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The political structures were torn apart until the very foundations were rocked.
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The spaceship would be torn apart by infinitely strong forces.
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We have players in the league whose families, let alone countries, are torn apart by war.
be torn/split/rent etc asunder
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If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder .
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In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.
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The veils are parting, the mists are rent asunder .
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This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture.
that's torn it!