"smash the record" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to breaking or setting a new record in a specific activity or competition. For example: - "The athlete smashed the record for the fastest mile run." - "The sales team smashed the record for the highest monthly revenue." - "The movie smashed the box office record for highest opening weekend." - "The chef smashed the record for the most pizzas made in one hour."
He'd have preferred it the other way around, that his 1951 portrait of Bacon smash the record.
If Chelsea were to secure the deal it would smash the record British transfer fee of £34m paid by Manchester City for Robinho.
If all went well, they could aim to smash the record set in 1912, by Russia's Martin Klein and Finland's Alfred Asikainen, whose countries weren't at war but who nonetheless grappled manfully with each other for eleven hours.
Beluga Monarch Assurance shot across the finish line at James Bay, St . Helena Island yesterday to smash the record for the 1,695-nautical-mile 1,695-nautical-mile 1,695-nautical-mile
If the triplex sells for anything close to its asking price this time, it will again smash the record for the biggest single residential deal in city history, topping the Harkness mansion on East 75th Street, which was sold in October for $53 million.
The Sixteenth Quartet isn't especially loud, certainly not compared to the movie's orchestral works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky, but it's easy to imagine exactly which furious passage, from the second movement of the quartet a wild interjection that displays Beethoven's audacity and indifference to the niceties moved Marcus to smash the record to bits.
Having done so, he smashed the record for the 200m T42 at the European Championships in July.
The new James Bond book Devil May Care has smashed the record for Penguin's fastest-selling hardback fiction title.
Several of his subsequent climbs have already given him age records, including an ascent of the K2 mountain at 65, which smashed the record by 11 years.
Consolidated Edison said power consumption by its customers had reached 13,189 megawatts, the highest level in the city's history, smashing the record set on Aug. 2, 2006.
They finished up with 13 of the 27 races, smashing the record of ten set during the boom days of the Celtic Tiger.
