sönder och samman
Appearance
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sönder (“broken”) + och (“and”) + samman (“together (as in having collapsed in on itself)”)
Adverb
[edit]sönder och samman (not comparable)
- to an utterly destroyed state (sometimes hyperbolically)
- De slog honom sönder och samman
- They beat him to a pulp