cut to ribbons

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Verb1.cut to ribbons - defeat totally; "We must cut the other team to ribbons!"
demolish, destroy - defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
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Peter of Colfax, cut to ribbons yet fighting like the maniac he had become, was as good as dead, for the mark of the Outlaw of Torn was upon his brow.
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