pull to pieces

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pull to pieces (third-person singular simple present pulls to pieces, present participle pulling to pieces, simple past and past participle pulled to pieces)

  1. (figurative) To thoroughly refute something.
    • 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
      To stand consistently by his criticisms of theories of race would have been to pull to pieces his partisan teachings, and this he would not do.

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