take to pieces



take something to pieces

Inf. to disassemble something. I will have to take the vacuum cleaner to pieces to find out what's wrong with it. The machine was taken to pieces again in an effort to find where the leftover part belonged.
See also: piece, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Edmondo-Italian
Chaya-Hebrew
Roper['rəupə]
ValerieVAL-ə-ree (English), VAH-le-ree (German)English, German, Czech
EleanorEL-ə-nawrEnglish
Tomasato-MAH-sahSpanish