pickings

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpickingspick‧ings /ˈpɪkɪŋz/ noun [plural] informal MONEYmoney or profits that you can get easily from a situation There were rich pickings (=a lot of money) to be had from the stock market. There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts.slim/lean/meagre pickings Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.Examples from the Corpuspickings• Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• Soaring inflation means lean pickings for the majority.• Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.• They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings.• What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!rich pickings• Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings.• So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings.• A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.• It would have yielded particularly rich pickings.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.

单词	pickings
释义	pickings From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpickingspick‧ings /ˈpɪkɪŋz/ noun [plural] informal MONEYmoney or profits that you can get easily from a situation There were rich pickings (=a lot of money) to be had from the stock market. There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts.slim/lean/meagre pickings Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.Examples from the Corpuspickings• Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• Soaring inflation means lean pickings for the majority.• Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.• They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings.• What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!rich pickings• Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings.• So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings.• A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.• It would have yielded particularly rich pickings.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.
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