pick to pieces
Example Sentences
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Take all the fat off sweetbreads; throw into boiling water; add one teaspoonful of salt and let stand on fire for twenty minutes; take from fire, remove all skin and pick to pieces.
From Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book by Shuman, Carrie V.
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
They pick to pieces and eat the vegetable and animal stuff which floats in the sea.
From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader
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
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)
