be falling apart at the seams

Meaning

1. be falling / coming apart at the seams

   to be going very badly wrong and likely to stop functioning completely

   She was falling apart at the seams, spending most of her time in tears.

In the movies · 2

• We're coming apart at the seams!The Lego Movie2014
• I'm coming apart at the seams.A Shot in the Dark1964

Learn it in full scenes

• The Lego Movie2014
  • Emmet Follows the Instructions
  • Emmet's Morning Routine in Bricksburg
  • Emmet Touches the Piece of Resistance
• A Shot in the Dark1964
  • Clouseau Investigates the Pistol Pen
  • Clouseau Interrogates Maria
  • Dreyfus Takes Over the Case

From the same entry

• be bursting at the seams
• fray at the edges

More idioms

• be frightened out of your wits
• be no laughing matter
• be on your last legs
• be the spitting image of
• blow up in face
• come with the territory
• for the foreseeable future
• from head to foot
• give a once over
• go round in circles
• have an eye for
• i could eat a horse