go to pieces

1. 1.

   lose one's emotional or mental composure

   “She fell apart when her only child died”

   Synonymsfall apart

   Broaderbreak down

Questions about go to pieces

What does go to pieces mean?

go to pieces means "lose one's emotional or mental composure".

What is another word for go to pieces?

Close synonyms include fall apart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is go to pieces a common word?

go to pieces is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.