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111pick your way — always followed by an adverb or preposition : to walk very slowly while carefully choosing where to put your feet The horses slowly pick their way across the rocky ground. We picked our way down the muddy path. • • • Main Entry: ↑pick …
112pick through something — ˌpick sthˈover | ˌpick ˈthrough sth derived to examine a group of things carefully, especially to choose the ones you want • Pick over the lentils and remove any little stones. • I picked through the facts of the case. Main entry: ↑pickderived …
113pick take the ball and run with it — pick up/take the ˌball and ˈrun with it idiom (especially NAmE) to develop an idea or plan that already exists • It s up to the private sector to take the ball and run with it. • The mainstream media will pick up the ball and run with it. • …
114PICK, ERNST PETER — (1872–1960), Austrian pharmacological chemist. Born in Jaromer, Bohemia, Pick worked until 1899 at the University of Strasbourg. He was head of the biochemistry department of the Serum Institute of Vienna from 1899 to 1911, and professor of… …
115pick up the tab — {v. phr.} To pay the bill in a restaurant; be the one who underwrites financially what others are doing. * / I am always the one who picks up the tab, Charlie complained bitterly. Others get away with being freeloaders. / Compare: FOOT THE BILL …
116pick up the tab — {v. phr.} To pay the bill in a restaurant; be the one who underwrites financially what others are doing. * / I am always the one who picks up the tab, Charlie complained bitterly. Others get away with being freeloaders. / Compare: FOOT THE BILL …
117Pick off — Pick off, v. t. 1. (Baseball) to put out a baserunner who is off base by tagging him/her, especially by a quick throw from the pitcher or catcher. [PJC] 2. to shoot so as to kill or disable, especially one by one from a position or in a situation …
118Pick-fault — n. One who seeks out faults. [1913 Webster] …
119Pick-me-up — n. A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
120Pick-a-Pair — is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right . Debuting on April 12, 1982, it is played for a prize worth more than $3,000, and uses grocery items.GameplayThe contestant is shown six grocery items with their prices… …
