tear down

The permit filed with the Anaheim Planning and Building Department calls for tearing down the 2,610-square-foot bakery and restaurant and removing two theme park ticket booths.

This is the rhetorical device the real-talk brigade uses to self-authenticate its own arguments, to tear down the straw people they establish as the targets of their ire.

We are in an age of gleeful disruption, particularly as we witness Silicon Valley strategies and the tearing down of the federal government.

I could tear down an entire plate of pasta with no problem.

After a long period in which Americans fought incredibly hard to enlarge the freedom to move, tearing down barriers of class and race, we’ve spent the last 50 years re-erecting them.