tear up the pea patch
verb1
Idiomatic To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage.
- Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.1970, Red Barber, The broadcasters, page 52:
- In the words of one who knows him well, "on a matter of principle, John McCone is quite capable of tearing up the pea patch."1964, Stewart Alsop with Thomas Wardell Braden, Sub rosa: the OSS and American espionage, page 244: