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Sort out, examine item by item, as in Dad hates to pick over the beans one by one . This term is sometimes put as picked over , describing something that has already been selected from (as in They have almost nothing left; the stock of bathing suits has been picked over ). [First half of 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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