pick and choose

1. Select with great care, as in John and Kate loved to go to the pastry shop, especially if they had time to pick and choose. Despite its redundancy (pick and choose are synonyms), this phrase has survived since the 1400s.

Example Sentences

Instead, the move toward around-the-clock trading would give them greater opportunity to pick and choose when they would want to be online.

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The settlement could change that practice by allowing merchants to pick and choose which categories of cards to accept within a network.

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It’s also interesting when you’re sequencing for vinyl, because you don’t have unlimited time so you kind of got to pick and choose, and that kind of forces you to just choose the best.

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Then, workers could largely pick and choose between competing offers.

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Williamson relinquished the captaincy in both white ball formats when signing a "casual" contract with NZ Cricket, allowing him to pick and choose his availability.

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Related Words

• elect 
• name 
• prefer 
• take