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smithereens noun small pieces or fragments; shreds UK, 1829- [I]n one smashing blow, his marriage was blasted to smithereens. — Stephen Arterburn, Every Man’s Battle, p. 180, 2000
- Everyone assumes we would send up a nuclear warhead and blast it to smithereens. The idea has some problems, however. — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 205, 2003
- I told myself not to get up in the night and walk across the floor unless I wanted to cut my feet to smithereens. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, p. 260, 2003
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