Meaning of tear up the pea patch | Babel Free

Definitions

To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage.

idiomatic

Examples

“Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.”

“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."”

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