Smashing stuff to pieces is the process of taking a bludgeoning instrument (or your arms) and combining them with some stuff (any stuff will do) to make pieces. The pieces usually fly everywhere. The stuff is nowdestroyed.
ROWAN IN: "SMASHING STUFF TO PIECES"
In a display of insurmountable, pansy-busting testosterone, Rowan grabbed the iron-clad baguette and started SMASHING STUFF TO PIECES. When he had finished, Paris Hilton's flat had been entirely demolished and the dust was still settling over once-sleepy Boringsville.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)