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
But it’s churlish to pick holes in what is an almost perfect 90-minute hit of confident and inspired comedic commentary.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2014
Under his present aspect I am much more disposed to be critical, and to pick holes in him, than I was under his former one.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
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