pick up the pieces

Maezawa abruptly cancelled the mission, leaving the crew to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives - the experience informed Adam's thought provoking project.

And just as fast, they are left alone to pick up the pieces; no resources, no aid, nothing.

And just as fast, they are left alone to pick up the pieces; no resources, no aid, nothing.

Smoking a string of cigarettes or blankly watching whatever’s on television, her face a canvas of exhaustion and depression, Janice is struggling to pick up the pieces.

"How much more evidence do the Democrats need that letting Trump be Trump and then hoping to pick up the pieces when he falters doesn’t work?"