pick to pieces

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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)

It is, we confess, an unpleasant and an invidious task, to pick to pieces, bit by bit, the work of an author of high reputation.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville

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