come apart at the seams

脱节脱胎换骨脱节了开裂

come apart at the seams 的定义

  1. Also, come unglued or unstuck. Become extremely upset; break down. For example, After he lost his job Brad seemed to come apart at the seams or The proposed bank merger is coming unglued, or When her last play flopped she became completely unstuck. This idiom transfers physical to emotional disintegration. [Slang; mid-1900s]

come apart at the seams 近义词

come apart at the seams

等同于 come unglued

come apart at the seams

等同于 flounder

更多come apart at the seams例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
  3. These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
  4. But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
  5. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  6. In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
  7. Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
  8. He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
  9. Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
  10. This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.