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pick
verb- to challenge someone to a fight AUSTRALIA, 1953
- Are you picking me, sport? — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 24, 1962
- I pick you, Noakes. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 63, 1969
- — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 82, 1998
- to tease or kid someone US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Spring 2003
▶ pick fruit
to find and select a homosexual partner US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 156, 1950
▶ pick lint
to focus on petty imperfections in a play or performance US- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 128, 1973
▶ pick the cherry
to drive through a red traffic light US- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 40, 1997
▶ pick up your marbles and go home
to quit an effort, especially to do so with a lack of good sportsmanship US- In politics, you have two choices if your side isn’t winning: You can pick up your marbles and go home, abandoning the game to others, or you can stay, fight and try to do better next time. — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. A12, 27 September 1991
- “ As long as we are meeting and talking,” Bagley said, “compromise is entirely possible. But to pick up your marbles and go home, as has been suggested by some on the County Commission, makes reaching a resolution extremely difficult.” — The Orlando Sentinel, p. B1, 21 March 1999
▶ pick your arse
to waste your time UK- We just sit here and pick our arses, do we? — Andy McNab, Immediate Action, p. 297, 1995
▶ pick your brains
to seek and obtain information from someone with specialist knowledge UK, 1838- He has also “picked the brains” of dozens of top entertainment-industry professionals to fill his book[.] — Michael Saint Nicholas, An Actor’s Guide, p. Back Cover, 2000
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