fall-to-pieces

Updated: May 8, 2025

On the shores of the bay, at nice driving distances, are Brighton and St. Kilda. Two or three fall-to-pieces bathing-machines are at present the only stock in trade of these watering-places; still, should some would-be fashionables among my readers desire to emigrate, it may gratify them to learn that they need not forego the pleasure of visiting Brighton in the season.

Ellen Clacy - A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53