be torn

Meaning

1. be torn (between A and B)

   to be unable to decide or choose between two people, things or feelings

   I was torn between my parents and my friend.

In the movies · 7

• You cannot always be torn in two.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003
• "He who will not be saved by the lamb will be torn by the beast."The Omen1976
• So he'll be torn to pieces.Deux Frères2004
• It looked like it was waiting to be torn down.Fight Club1999
• The Torn Prince.Thir13en Ghosts2001
• It's all torn up.The Holdovers2023
• ...flat that Torn kept for Myrtle...The Great Gatsby2013
• You've torn your book.The Spanish Prisoner1997

Learn it in full scenes

• Fight Club1999
  • Tyler Holds a Gun on Jack
  • Narrator Cries at Support Groups
  • Narrator and Marla Expose Each Other
• The Great Gatsby2013
  • Nick Begins His Story
  • Nick Dines with the Buchanans
  • Tom's Secret Apartment Party

From the same entry

• tear apart, to shreds, to bits
• tear at your heart
• tear your hair
• a tearing hurry
• tear off a strip
• that's torn it
• tear the heart out of
• tear limb from limb
• break loose from
• in one piece
• in shreds
• tear apart

More idioms

• do the trick
• not a bit
• a needle in a haystack
• get out of your system
• go your separate ways
• hands up
• in a manner of speaking
• pick up the pieces
• go back a long way
• have a soft spot for
• in this day and age
• neither here nor there