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
With statistics, once somebody puts a number in front of you, you can pick holes in it and really analyse whether it stands up or falls apart.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2018
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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