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tear up the pea patch en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage.
    • In the words of one who knows him well, "on a matter of principle, John McCone is quite capable of tearing up the pea patch." 1964, Stewart Alsop with Thomas Wardell Braden, Sub rosa: the OSS and American espionage, page 244:
    • Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture. 1970, Red Barber, The broadcasters, page 52:

Forms

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torn up the pea patch Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tearing up the pea patch Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tears up the pea patch Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
tore up the pea patch Tense=Past lexicographic