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Smithereens   /smˌɪðərˈinz/   Listen
Smithereens

noun
1.
A collection of small fragments considered as a whole.  "His hopes were dashed to smithereens" , "I wanted to smash him to smithereens" , "The toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"





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"Smithereens" Quotes from Famous Books



... hitching your wagon to a star, that I tried to believe she deliberately intended it. I would have hitched up oftener to that same star, except for the fact that stars sometimes get hot and furious at too many liberties, and switch their tails and kick the wagons of well-meaning people to smithereens. That it may be better to have had a stellar joy-ride and be sent to hell for speeding than keep your boots forever in the clay, I will neither affirm nor deny; but the prudent ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... "about his treatment of infinitives. He may split them all to smithereens if he likes. It's the monstrous nature of his ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 153, November 7, 1917 • Various


Words linked to "Smithereens" :   accumulation, assemblage, aggregation, collection


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