Idiom
tear to shreds
Meaning
Synonym of tear to pieces.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The puppy tore my favorite book to shreds.”
“The critic tore the new movie to shreds in his review, calling it boring and poorly written.”
“During the heated debate, the lawyer tore the witness's weak testimony to shreds, exposing several contradictions in her story.”
Examples
simple
“The puppy tore my favorite book to shreds.”
contextual
“The critic tore the new movie to shreds in his review, calling it boring and poorly written.”
complex
“During the heated debate, the lawyer tore the witness's weak testimony to shreds, exposing several contradictions in her story.”
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