fall apart

Language: en

Meaning: Todisintegrate, tobreakintopieces.My old briefcase isfalling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.2011, Tom Fordyce,Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France‎[1]:England's World Cup dreamsfell apartunder a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.2025September 9, “Network News: Robeston train troubles”, inRail, page 6:It investigated extensive damage caused by a Robeston-Westerleigh train after the brake system under one of its wagonsfell aparton October 30 2017.; (idiomatic)To beemotionallyincrisis.As a result of being addicted to heroin, she wasfalling apart.1980December 20, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “A Personal Remembrance Of The Saints”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number22, page14:At first I used to look at so many of us having fights or crying or staggering around messed up somehow and think, "God, are we fucked up!" but now what I think is that it was a safe place tofall apartin — one of the few. You didn't have to be politically correct or well-behaved; you could be wild or angry or miserable.; (idiomatic)Toseparate.1599,Nicholas Downton, “The firing and sinking of the stout and warrelike Carack calledLas Cinque Llaguas, or,The fiue Wounds, by three tall Ships set foorth at the charges of the right honorable the Erle ofCumberlandand his friends”, inRichard Hakluyt,The Second Volume of the Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation,[…], 2nd edition, London:[…]George Bishop, Ralph Newbery, andRobert Barker,→OCLC, 2nd part,page200:And when my care was moſt, by Gods pꝛouidence onely, by the burning aſunder of our ſpꝛitſaile-yard with ropes and ſaile, and the ropes about the ſpꝛitſaile-yard of the Carack, whereby we were faſt intangled, wefell apart, with burning of ſome of our ſailes which we had then on booꝛd.1887November, Linda Villari, “Courmayeur”, inThe Leisure Hour, London,page776, column 2:Again the mountainsfall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies thebourgadeof La Thuile.1993October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, inHome‎[2], performed byDeep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:You'll say, we've got nothing in commonNo common ground to start fromAnd we'refalling apart2015November 3,Mark Cocker, “A tumbleweed of starlings”, inThe Guardian‎[3], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon3 November 2015:Others come on behind relentlessly and, in this way, it arrives before me as a tumbleweed of moving birds. Occasionally two of them, newly vanished, suddenly pop back up, all legs and squabbling beak, then theyfall apartand resume the stab-and-prise feeding technique that scientists call Zirkeln.

Examples:

EN: Not so rough, Mademoiselle I'm liable to fall apart
ES: - No sea tan brusca, mademoiselle. Puedo caerme a pedazos.
EN: The wood's so rotten, it'll fall apart at a touch.
ES: La madera está tan podrida que se deshace al tocarla.
EN: I'm talking about a white shirt, a shirt without a spot, without any holes that won't fall apart when you unbutton your coat.
ES: Quiero una camisa blanca, que no tenga ni una mancha, ni un agujero... y que no se desarme cuando uno se desabotona el saco.
EN: Push the engine and this car will fall apart.
ES: Dale un poco de caña al motor y el coche se caerá a piezas.
EN: Another day like this, and I'll fall apart.
ES: Otro día como este y acabarán conmigo.
EN: You've only been here two months and you're all ready to fall apart.
ES: Llevas sólo dos meses aqui y vas a desfallecer.
EN: If only he'd fall apart while there's time.
ES: Si sufriera una crisis nerviosa ahora que aún hay tiempo.
EN: Ah, sit down, old lady, before you fall apart.
ES: Siéntese, anciana, que no está para disgustos.
EN: As a friend of both of you... I'm willing to try to help you out of the mess you're in... but I won't get involved in a fragile plot that's... apt to fall apart at once!
ES: Por amistad hacia ustedes dos... tengo toda la voluntad de ayudarlo en este mal paso... pero no voy a poner la cara por una coartada tan frágil... que se caerá a pedazos de inmediato.
EN: Yes and so do I but your real friends can't stand seeing you start to fall apart.
ES: Sí, yo también, pero tus amigos de verdad no quieren ver cómo te estás destruyendo.
EN: If he does'n t fall apart.
ES: - Déjale en paz. Estará bien, si no se cae a piezas.
EN: God fall apart I'm sick of me I'm sick of the very thought of you.
ES: ¡Haz lo que te dé la gana! ¡Me tienes harto!
EN: He'll fall apart-- Kids always do.
ES: Los jóvenes siempre lo hacen.
EN: If you took care of your truck like yourselves, it'd fall apart in two weeks.
ES: Si tratáis al camión como a vosotros, no durará nada.
EN: It's imitation leather, the glue's no good in two weeks it will fall apart, and all you'll have is Ochi Tchornya.
ES: Imitación cuero, el pegamento es malo en dos semanas se abrirá todo y lo único que quedará es Ochi Tchornya.

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