dash to pieces

dash to pieces

To smash something into fragments. A noun or pronoun is usually used between "dash" and "to." In a fit of anger, I dashed the plate to pieces.
See also: dash, piece
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dash something to pieces

to break something into small pieces. She dashed the glass to pieces on the floor—she was so mad. The potter dashed the imperfect pot to pieces.
See also: dash, piece
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • piece out
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arrange for
  • arrange for some time
  • arrange some music for
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • add in
References in periodicals archive
Dash to pieces all your image of the Duterte machismo.
Reading between the Duterte lines
All it will take is one professor with an inflated ego and a secular mind to dash to pieces everything that our students suspect is true.
The need to say it