pick to pieces
Example Sentences
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They pick to pieces and eat the vegetable and animal stuff which floats in the sea.
From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader
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
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'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.
Take all the fat off sweetbreads; throw into boiling water; add one teaspoonful of salt and let stand on fire for twenty minutes; take from fire, remove all skin and pick to pieces.
From Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book by Shuman, Carrie V.
