tear to pieces (?.)

• atomize
• break to pieces
• carp
• catch at straws
• cavil
• cleave
• cut up
• defoliate
• demolish
• denude
• disassemble
• disintegrate
• dismantle
• dismember
• draw and quarter
• fault-find
• find fault
• flay
• fragment
• lacerate
• maim
• make mincemeat of
• mangle
• mutilate
• nitpick
• peel
• pettifog
• pick holes
• pick to pieces
• pull apart
• pull in pieces
• pull to pieces
• pulverize
• quibble
• reduce to rubble
• rend
• shatter
• shred
• skin
• smash
• split
• strip
• sunder
• take apart
• take exception
• tear apart
• tear to shreds
• tear to tatters
• total
• unbuild
• undo
• unmake
• wrack up
• wreck