pick to pieces

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

But if you think I'm going down there to stare around127 at the things in the house and pick to pieces the dishes and the food—you're wrong, Beryl.

From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

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)