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