Tearing an idea to pieces

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boss

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tore my business plan to

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Pieces my boss tore my business plan to

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pieces this is a more informal metaphor

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that we have used my boss did not

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literally tear my business plan to

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Pieces no it's a

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metaphor um and we use this to describe

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criticism which is delivered in a

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very negative way when someone totally

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does not want to even consider uh your

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idea or your

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opinion now of course there are many

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ways of