pick over sth
— phrasal verb with pick uk/pɪk/us/pɪk/verb
to look carefully at a group of things, choosing the ones you want or getting rid of the ones you do not want:
All the clothes at the sale had been thoroughly picked over and there was nothing nice left.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking and choosing
- accord
- adopt
- adopted
- adoption
- appoint
- bags I... idiom
- dip
- easy option
- either-or
- elect
- empanel
- go off with sth
- have/keep your options open idiom
- selection
- selective
- selector
- self-selected
- single sb/sth out
- skim sb/sth off
- slate
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