rip to shreds

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Verb[edit]

rip to shreds (third-person singular simple present rips to shreds, present participle ripping to shreds, simple past and past participle ripped to shreds)

  1. To tear apart, so that only shreds remain.
  2. (idiomatic) To criticize severely; to refute.