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fall apart
verb
- to break owing to long use or poor construction
the chassis is falling apart
- to become disorganized and ineffective
since you resigned, the office has fallen apart
Idioms and Phrases
Collapse, break down, either physically or mentally and emotionally. For example, This chair is about to fall apart , or After his wife died, he fell apart . For synonyms for the latter usage, see come apart at the seams ; go to pieces .Example Sentences
It’s not just one moment where everything comes to a head, falls apart and then comes back together.
Kenan, for example, ultimately decided to seek help from a therapist after his relationship fell apart.
Trump is just trying to generate something going in the economy when it’s dead and falling apart.”
The enterprise thrived during lockdown but, as individual members signed TV deals, or grew tired of the escalating demands for content, it started to fall apart.
Born in Alderney, before embarking on a marketing career which took him around the world, Mr Cairnduff returned, he said, to find the island had "started to fall apart".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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