smash up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,ambitransitive)Todestroy, or be destroyed bysmashing.c.1921(date written), Karel Čapek, translated byPaul Selver,R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama[…], Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1923,→OCLC,Act 2:You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots andsmashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.1944May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, inRailway Magazine, page186:The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badlysmashed upin a collision at Connah's Quay.; (idiomatic,transitive)Toinjureormaim.

Examples:

EN: If I could only once smash up that damned apparatus!
ES: ¡Si pudiera cargarme ese maldito aparato!
EN: Oh, don't let this thing smash up our lives.
ES: Ah, no dejes que esto destruya nuestras vidas.
EN: If they smash up that infernal gun, then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.
ES: Si destruyen el cañón vuestro honor estará a salvo y no tendréis que ir.
EN: To smash up the only friend you've got.
ES: Para terminar con el único amigo que le queda.
EN: You don't close them hard enough. Rip out the phones, smash up the furniture.
ES: Debió destruir las líneas telefónicas y los muebles.
EN: - I'll smash up your shop.
ES: Nadie llega a trescientas. Romperé tu farmacia.
EN: Now, three other flyers had been forced out including Jimmy Sullivan, who has been reportedly injured in a smash up.
ES: Los competidores restantes han hecho un aterrizaje forzoso incluyendo a Jimmy Sullivan, quien ha resultado herido.
EN: And when it's all over, looking back on a perfectly smashing achievement. Or a perfectly smashing smash up.
ES: Y al final, volviendo la vista atrás contemplar un encumbramiento soberbio o un soberbio derrumbamiento.
EN: If I smash up, what do you care?
ES: Si yo me estampo, ¿a ti qué te importa?
EN: Throw the liquor in the creek, smash up the kegs, get rid of it.
ES: - El licor al riachuelo. Rompan los barriles. Desháganse de eso.
EN: We don't want him to smash up the Batmobile.
ES: No queremos que choque el Batimóvil.
EN: Keith, who's a great sort of joiner-inner... used to smash up his drum kit.
ES: Keith, quien es genial como carpintero interior... comenzo a romper su bateria.
EN: Algaroc will smash up a lot more than this place if he gets woken up.
ES: él podría destruir todo el océano!
EN: Either you pay me immediately, or I'll smash up your studio.
ES: -O pagas o te destrozo el estudio.
EN: I wanted to smash up the dining-room but it's a lovely dining-room...
ES: Quise romper todo lo que había en el comedor. Y mi comedor es muy bonito, estoy bien allí.

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