pick

Related to pick: Pick's disease

pick (someone's)

brain/brains
To explore another's ideas through questioning.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See:
  • a bone to pick
  • bone to pick
  • bone to pick, have a
  • cherry-pick
  • for a song
  • get up/pick up steam
  • have (one's) pick of (something)
  • have a bone to pick
  • have a bone to pick (with one)
  • have a bone to pick with somebody
  • have a bone to pick with someone
  • have a bone to pick, to
  • have a pick-me-up
  • nose-pick
  • pick
  • pick (one's) battle(s)
  • pick (one's) brain(s)
  • pick (one's) moment
  • pick (one's) nose
  • pick (one's) pocket
  • pick (one's) spot
  • pick (one's) way
  • pick (one's) way through
  • pick (someone or something) out of (something)
  • pick (someone or something) out of a hat
  • pick (someone or something) to pieces
  • pick (something) clean
  • pick (something) to bits
  • pick (something) up where (one) left off
  • pick a bone (with someone), to
  • pick a bone with (someone)
  • pick a fight
  • pick a fight/quarrel
  • pick a lock
  • pick a quarrel
  • pick a quarrel with (one)
  • pick a winner
  • pick and choose
  • pick and choose, to
  • pick and mix
  • pick apart
  • pick at
  • pick at (one)
  • pick at (something)
  • pick away
  • pick away at (one)
  • pick away at (something)
  • pick brain
  • pick from
  • pick gooseberry
  • pick holes
  • pick holes in
  • pick holes in (something)
  • pick holes in something
  • pick nits
  • pick of
  • pick of the bunch
  • pick of the litter
  • pick of the litter, the
  • pick off
  • pick on
  • pick on (someone or something)
  • pick on somebody your own size
  • pick on someone your own size
  • pick on your own size
  • pick one's way
  • pick out
  • pick out of
  • pick over
  • pick six
  • pick somebody's brains
  • pick somebody's pocket
  • pick someone or something to pieces
  • pick someone's brain
  • pick someone's brain, to
  • pick someone's brains
  • pick something clean
  • pick something out of a hat
  • pick through
  • pick through (something)
  • pick to pieces
  • pick up
  • pick up (one's) marbles and go home
  • pick up (one's) marbles and leave
  • pick up after
  • pick up after (someone or oneself)
  • pick up on
  • pick up on (something)
  • pick up on something
  • pick up speed
  • pick up steam
  • pick up sticks
  • pick up stompies
  • pick up the ball and run with it
  • pick up the bill
  • pick up the check
  • pick up the gauntlet
  • pick up the hint
  • pick up the pace
  • pick up the pieces
  • pick up the slack
  • pick up the tab
  • pick up the threads
  • pick up the threads (of something)
  • pick up what (one) is putting down
  • pick up your marbles and go home
  • pick way
  • pick way through
  • pick your poison
  • pick your way
  • pick, etc. something out of a hat
  • pick, pull, etc. somebody/something to bits/pieces
  • pick/choose your moment
  • pick-me-up
  • pickthank
  • pick-up artist
  • pick-up community
  • pick-up line
  • roach clip
  • roach pick
  • take (one's) pick
  • take (one's) pick of (someone or something)
  • take pick of
  • take the ball and run (with it)
  • take up the slack
  • take/have your pick
  • the pick of (something)
  • the pick of the bunch
  • Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
References in classic literature
"It is the law here that whoever picks a dinner-pail without our permission must die immediately."
They are fit for any mischief, and it's my opinion they would try to kill us just the same if you hadn't picked a dinner-pail."
Ozma of Oz
So then I got a shovel, and then we picked and shoveled, turn about, and made the fur fly.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I've been picked over six years, but our family is known to be especially long lived."
"It will be several days before she needs to be picked, or at least that is my judgment.
"I'm sure the Princess is ready to be picked," asserted Dorothy, gazing hard at the beautiful girl on the bush.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of its weight --Tarzan of the Apes picked it up as though it had been an empty packing case, and with the spade slung to his back by a piece of rope, carried it off into the densest part of the jungle.
Tarzan of the Apes
"No; I have found when she is absent this long, she is liable not to come back till late." She drew on her gloves, and Robert picked up his hat.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The sounds of the picks against the rock, the bursting of mines, the grinding of the machines, the wreaths of smoke scattered through the air, traced around Stones Hill a circle of terror which the herds of buffaloes and the war parties of the Seminoles never ventured to pass.
From The Earth To The Moon
His position gave him a bird's-eye view of the field of battle, and his keen eyesight picked out many details that would not have been apparent to a man whose every sense was not trained to the highest point of perfection as were the ape-man's.
In three minutes Tarzan picked off the crew of that gun.
He saw men running through the trenches and he picked off several of them.
One of the soldiers picked up the bullet that had killed his officer, and then it was that real excitement prevailed in that particular bay, for the bullet was obviously of German make.
Tarzan the Untamed
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414(h)(2), contributions to state and local pension plans are treated as employer contributions, if the employer "picks up" the contribution; in this way, these contributions are not included in wages for FICA or income tax purposes.
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