pick to pieces

Example Sentences

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I have heard men pick to pieces a hand of whist with more antagonism.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Tempt your parrot with English walnuts, bits of apple and pear, and canary and hemp seed, and also give it a red pepper to pick to pieces.

From Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

But if you think I'm going down there to stare around127 at the things in the house and pick to pieces the dishes and the food—you're wrong, Beryl.

From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

Scarcely any proverb will bear picking to pieces, and analyzing, as a botanist would pick to pieces and analyze a rose or a tulip.

From The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)

I never preached a sermon yet that I could not pick to pieces and find fault with.

From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman