pick to pieces
Example Sentences
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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 Carrie V. Shuman
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'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 James A. Cooper
Eu kas rub against, scratch; Dak kashe rub against, kaza pick to pieces.
From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson
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 Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
