CUT TO RIBBONS

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Defeat totally

Example:

We must cut the other team to ribbons!

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "cut to ribbons" is one way to...):

demolish; destroy (defeat soundly and humiliatingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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