pick to pieces
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"I'm not goin' to have you out there in that store for these folks to look over and pick to pieces, my girl," he said decidedly.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.
They pick to pieces and eat the vegetable and animal stuff which floats in the sea.
From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader
Boil twenty minutes this time, drain off every bit of water, put on a platter to cool and pick to pieces as fine as possible, removing every bit of skin and bone.
From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Greenbaum, Florence Kreisler
Hopper was a born gossip, and if there was any one person he loved to talk of and criticize and "pick to pieces" it was Old Swallowtail.
From Mary Louise in the Country by St. John, James Allen
Tempt your parrot with English walnuts, bits of apple and pear, and canary and hemp seed, and also give it a red pepper to pick to pieces.
From Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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