pick to pieces

Idioms  

1. see pick apart.

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Example Sentences

Scarcely any proverb will bear picking to pieces, and analyzing, as a botanist would pick to pieces and analyze a rose or a tulip.

From The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)

They pick to pieces and eat the vegetable and animal stuff which floats in the sea.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

Eu kas rub against, scratch; Dak kashe rub against, kaza pick to pieces.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)

I have heard men pick to pieces a hand of whist with more antagonism.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

I never preached a sermon yet that I could not pick to pieces and find fault with.

From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman