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Hi. Do you know the idiom "pick holes in (something)"? I had found it in my Polish-English dictionary, but hadn't been able to found it in any English-English dictionary; nevertheless, I used it in one of my posts.
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Re: Pick holes in
Find fault with (especially when being unnecessarily critical)
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Find fault with (especially when being unnecessarily critical)
Exactly! So, why I wasn't able to find it in any on-line dictionary (in UsingEnglish either)?
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Re: Pick holes in
Try looking under "poke holes in."
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Do you 'poke holes' Stateside?
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Try looking under "poke holes in."
Again, I could not find it in on-line dictionaries
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Do you 'poke holes' Stateside?
Yes! Most vigorously.
Seriously, that's the phraseology on this side of the pond.
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