pull to pieces

English

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• pick to pieces