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cut/tear something/someone to ribbons idiom to destroy or badly damage something or someone by cutting or tearing it, him, or her many times: 将…割/撕成碎片 Our new kitten has torn the living room curtains to ribbons.我们刚养的小猫把起居室的窗帘撕成了碎片。 figurativeThe attacking soldiers were cut to ribbons (= killed) by machine gun fire.进攻的士兵被机枪打得血肉横飞。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Tearing and breaking into pieces apart asunder bobble bobbly break into pieces chip crack dismantle fall apart fall to piecesidiom fragment fragmentation fragmented rip snag splinter split sunder tear something apart tear something up
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