pick holes in
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“Have it pick holes in the strategy you currently have,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"It'll be extremely hard to get through. Motherwell are a top side and they'll analyse us now and pick holes in our game. We're only at half-time."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022
If given the opportunity, they will surely try to pick holes in Holmes’s testimony.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2019
And seeing that they did indeed give us the best show on television, it’s probably petty to pick holes in their strangely somnolent commentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019
Rend me to pieces—tear my sentences to rags, and pick holes in every detail, if you like!
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
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