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come apart (at the seams)
vs
fall to pieces
come apart (at the seams)
fall to pieces
verb
To break into a number of segments; to collapse.
To be emotionally devastated; to break down.
How often have the words
come apart (at the seams)
and
fall to pieces
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)