pick to pieces
Example Sentences
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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
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.
They pick to pieces and eat the vegetable and animal stuff which floats in the sea.
From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader
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
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
