to tear sb to shreds
- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary and MacMillan Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- To tear sb to shreds
- Variantes
- Attack, damn, savage
- Contexto
- It was what you might call a very one-sided debate; I was the only one representing the “bad” guys, the scientific community, and I faced a united front of perhaps eighty people ready to tear me to shreds and deposit my bleedings remains in the nearest back alley.
- Fuente del contexto
- Libro Saving Molly: A Research Veterinarian's Choices—for the Love of Animals
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- James Mahoney
- Título de la fuente
- Saving Molly: A Research Veterinarian's Choices—for the Love of Animals
- Año
- 1998
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente