"tear up the pea patch" meaning in English

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      "form": "tore up the pea patch",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1970, Red Barber, The broadcasters, page 52",
          "text": "Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Stewart Alsop with Thomas Wardell Braden, Sub rosa: the OSS and American espionage, page 244",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        "To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage."
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        "(idiomatic) To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage."
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