Idiom
come apart at the seams
Meaning
Synonym of fall apart.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old shoes are starting to come apart at the seams.”
“The project began to come apart at the seams when the team leader suddenly quit.”
“As the political coalition faced internal scandals, the entire administration began to come apart at the seams.”
Examples
simple
“My old shoes are starting to come apart at the seams.”
contextual
“The project began to come apart at the seams when the team leader suddenly quit.”
complex
“As the political coalition faced internal scandals, the entire administration began to come apart at the seams.”
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