词组 | to pick and choose |
释义 | (redirected from to pick and choose)pick and chooseTo select and combine various different options as one desires. Starting next month, customers of the airline will no longer be able to pick and choose the things they pay for on their flights, instead having to select one of three pre-determined price tiers. pick and chooseto choose very carefully from a number of possibilities; to be selective. You must take what you are given. You cannot pick and choose. Meg is so beautiful. She can pick and choose from a whole range of boyfriends. pick and chooseSelect with great care, as in John and Kate loved to go to the pastry shop, especially if they had time to pick and choose . Despite its redundancy ( pick and choose are synonyms), this phrase has survived since the 1400s. pick and chooseselect only the best or most desirable or appropriate from among a number of alternatives.ˌpick and ˈchoosetake time and care to choose something you really want: There are so few jobs in banking at the moment that you’re not really in a position to pick and choose.pick and choose To select with great care. pick and choose, toTo select very fastidiously. This redundancy—to pick and to choose mean exactly the same thing—dates from the seventeenth century. Sir Thomas Herbert (Travels into Africa and Asia, 1665) stated, “He found he had the liberty to pick and choose,” and the term is still current. |
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