One, large for his age, made smithereens out of the flowerpots and china because his hands seemed to have the property of breaking everything they touched.
Your digestive system reduces food to that level in two main ways: by physically smashing it to smithereens, and by bathing them, as much as it can, in enzymes.
And of course Arthur Smithereens as he was blown into a thousand smithereens smithereens. That's a good word. I don't think I've I've said the phrase blown into a thousand smithereens in a very long time and I'm disappointed in myself.