saw

saw something (up) (into something)

to cut something up into pieces with a saw. Jake sawed the logs up into pieces the right size for the fireplace. Would you saw up the logs into smaller pieces?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • against the grain
  • could fight a circle-saw
  • could fight a circle-saw (and it a runnin')
  • double saw
  • double sawbuck
  • first see the light of day
  • hit the sawdust trail
  • I came, I saw, I conquered
  • I see what you did there
  • old saw
  • saw
  • saw (something) off of (something)
  • saw down
  • saw into
  • saw off
  • saw through
  • saw up
  • saw wood
  • sawed
  • sawed off
  • sawed-off
  • see (one) across (something or some place)
  • see (one) back (to something or some place)
  • see (one) coming
  • see (one) down (to something or some place)
  • see (one) for what (one) (really) is
  • see (one) home
  • see (one) in hell first
  • see (one) in the flesh
  • see (one) right
  • see (one) through
  • see (one) to (some place)
  • see (one) up to (some place)
  • see (one's) way (clear) to (doing something)
  • see (someone or something) in a new light
  • see (someone's) point
  • see (something) a mile off
  • see (something) against (something else)
  • see (something) coming
  • see (something) through
  • see (something) through rose-colored glasses
  • see (something) through rose-coloured spectacles
  • see (the) red mist
  • see (to it) that (something happens)
  • see a lot of (one)
  • see a man about a dog
  • see a man about a horse
  • see about (something)
  • see after (someone or something)
  • see ahead
  • see around
  • see as (something)
  • see beyond (someone or something)
  • see daylight
  • see double
  • see eye to eye
  • see eye to eye about (something)
  • see eye to eye on (something)
  • see fit (to do something)
  • see for (oneself)
  • see how the land lies
  • see how the sausage gets made
  • see how the wind blows
  • see how the wind is blowing
  • see in
  • see into
  • see it coming
  • see no further than (the end of) (one's) (own) nose
  • see no objection
  • see off
  • see out
  • see over (someone or something)
  • see pink elephants
  • see pink spiders
  • see reason
  • see red
  • see sense
  • see service
  • see snakes
  • see stars
  • see that it is done
  • see the (hand)writing on the wall
  • see the color of (one's) money
  • see the elephant
  • see the error of (one's) ways
  • see the funny side (of something)
  • see the glass as half empty
  • see the glass as half full
  • see the light
  • see the light at the end of the tunnel
  • see the light of day
  • see the point in (doing) (something)
  • see the sights
  • see the world
  • see things
  • see through (someone or something)
  • see to (someone or something)
  • see which way the cat jumps
  • see which way the wind blows
  • see which way the wind is blowing
  • see with half an eye
References in classic literature
Snakes!--with their forked tongues, their beady eyes and glittering scales, their hissing and their rattling--did I not already know them far too well on that day of my first circus when I saw the snake-charmer lift them up?
Before Adam
He saw the lips of the lovers meet, and then heard Cornelius send Rosa away.
The Black Tulip
"No, I am not going to stay," answered Anna, smiling, but in spite of her smile, both Korsunsky and the master of the house saw from her resolute tone that she would not stay.
Anna Karenina
In my sleep I saw her face, and was both joyful and sorry.
Tales of Unrest
Nobs and I followed to the summit of the pass, and there we saw the party defiling into the Galu country, the level of which was not, on an average, over fifty feet below the summit of the cliffs and about a hundred and fifty feet above the adjacent Kro-lu domain.
The People That Time Forgot
"Then I saw Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to Jove indomitable Hercules; and Megara who was daughter to great King Creon, and married the redoubtable son of Amphitryon.
Odyssey
Ring now left the King, and was very silent, for he saw he was in a great difficulty: but, on the other hand, he thought it was excellent to have such a chance of winning the King's daughter.
Yellow Fairy Book
"If you feel the slightest doubt of what I have told you," I went on, "ask my mother; she will bear witness that she saw the writing too."
The Two Destinies
As I stood sick and confused I saw again the moving thing upon the shoal--there was no mistake now that it was a moving thing--against the red water of the sea.
Time Machine
Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick.
Great Expectations
Even though the Russian knew that he was safe from his enemy, the very sight of him threw him into a frenzy of trembling cowardice, which became frantic hysteria as he saw the white giant dive fearlessly into the forbidding waters of the tropical river.
The Beasts of Tarzan
He saw that Adam had on his shoulder a mysterious box, which he took to contain something valuable.
Lair of the White Worm
The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.' When the three servants came to the forest, nothing was there but a rose-tree and one rose on it, but the children were nowhere.
Fairy Tales
Clad all in white, upon a violet bank I saw thee half reclining; while the moon Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses, And on thine own, upturn'd- alas, in sorrow!
Poems
But scarcely had his joyous servants dressed their master, whom they saw with pleasure preparing for a journey which might dissipate his melancholy; scarcely had the comte's gentlest horse been saddled and brought to the door, when the father of Raoul felt his head become confused, his legs give way, and he clearly perceived the impossibility of going one step further.
The Man in the Iron Mask