The phrase "break something down" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the process of splitting something up into smaller components, for example, "I need to break down these tasks into smaller pieces so that I can manage them more easily."
I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don't know anything when I start work on a new movie.
The anarchic form of the show was really my first look into how you can break something down, break down the fourth wall and take it all apart, and then be left with not less but more.
When you break something down, you challenge it or show it to be wrong.
"They are trying to break something down which they haven't looked at carefully," Jansen said.
'To break something down' jechuun waantokkof falla furmaata itti kennuu.
Creativity: Your ability to make something — ANYTHING (rather than break something down).
If analysis simply involved breaking something down, then it appeared destructive and life-diminishing, and the critique of analysis that this view engendered was a common theme in idealism and romanticism in all its main varieties from German, British and French to North American.
"That doesn't trouble me because when I think of rebuild, I think of breaking something down and building it back up.
If asked what 'analysis' means, most people today immediately think of breaking something down into its components; and this is how analysis tends to be officially characterized.
The restriction to concepts and the reference to displaying 'logical structure' are important qualifications, but the core conception remains that of breaking something down.
Someone is going to spill something, cry, get cranky, fall down, break something.
