pick to pieces

Idioms  

1. see pick apart.

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Example Sentences

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.

"I'm not goin' to have you out there in that store for these folks to look over and pick to pieces, my girl," he said decidedly.

From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.

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

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

It is, we confess, an unpleasant and an invidious task, to pick to pieces, bit by bit, the work of an author of high reputation.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville