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pick over
Idioms and Phrases
Sort out, examine item by item, as in Dad hates to pick over the beans one by one . This term is sometimes put as picked over , describing something that has already been selected from (as in They have almost nothing left; the stock of bathing suits has been picked over ). [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.
And doubtless some Scotland fans will as they pick over the pieces of another defeat in which their endeavour and good intentions went to waste.
The Tories are picking over their colossal election defeat and an election campaign seen privately by many in the party as a mess - not least because of the torrent of stories about betting.
Cooks and servants of the garrison picked over the goods, demanding better prices while soldiers wandered in and out of the main gate with bored expressions, rarely stopping to look at the merchandise.
But judges will no doubt be picking over the reasons set out by Mr Jack in great detail, to see whether he was really being "irrational".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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