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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Pick apart

My wife always picks apart what I say to get me in trouble.
= to find a falut
The engineer is picking apart the information to solve a problem.
= to analyze scrutinily something

Did I use " pick apart" correctly?
  

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messier42 My wife always picks apart what I say to get me in trouble. OK messier42 The engineer is picking apart the information to solve a problem. No.

  • messier42 My wife always picks apart what I say to get me in trouble.
  • OK messier42 The engineer is picking apart the information to solve a problem.
  • No.
  • "Pick apart" implies figuratively to look for inherent faults or errors, or literally, to disassemble a whole thing to its individual parts.
  • Here are some natural idioms with "pick": The engineer is picking (sifting) through the information looking for clues to solve a problem.
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messier42My wife always picks apart what I say to get me in trouble.
OK
messier42The engineer is picking apart the information to solve a problem.
No. "Pick apart" implies figuratively to look for inherent faults or errors, or literally, to disassemble a whole thing to its individual parts.

Here are some natural id

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