Talk:blow to smithereens

Request for deletion

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Synonymous with blow to Kingdom come blow to bits blow to pieces. All the novelty is in smithereens. DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 11:27, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

If it's just a matter of it being idiomatic or not, I think it probably is, yet despite that my gut instinct is delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:31, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Delete per nom. If smithereens had several distinct meanings, then the phrase would need an entry, but as it is .... -- ALGRIF talk 15:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Delete. Equinox ◑ 18:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

It would never have occurred to me that you can say this, and lo, there it is. I guess you also want to delete google:"blow to pieces"; google books:"blow to pieces". Some dictionaries have "blow to pieces", as the Google books search shows. Both phrases look peculiar to English to me; I can't "rozfoukat na kusy", "vyhodit do povětří na kusy" or "zničit na kusy" in Czech. So it looks idiomatic in the sense that is not used by CFI, that is idiomatic--"of a multi-word phrase, peculiar in its composition to the particular language; not capable of being translated word-for-word to other languages". --Dan Polansky 21:51, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Delete. Sum of parts.--达伟 15:04, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Fails. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC)