pick holes in
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“Have it pick holes in the strategy you currently have,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
Grant: If you’re going to pick holes in the finale, let me ask you this: Did you think the bridge was high enough?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021
If given the opportunity, they will surely try to pick holes in Holmes’s testimony.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2019
Any fool could pick holes in it, but it was a compromise agreed by Brussels, and would see us out before the 31 October deadline.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2019
It's very easy to pick holes in other folk's work.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Brazil, Angela
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