Nghĩa là gì: cotton-pickercotton-picker /'kɔtn,pikə/
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hand pick Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a bone to pick
something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""
a pick-me-up
something that gives me energy or new life On a hot afternoon, a glass of iced tea is a great pick-me-up.
bone to pick
(See a bone to pick with you)
cherrypicker (hockey)
a player who waits at center ice for a pass Our coach told us about the cherrypicker on the other team.
cotton-picking
thieving, doggone, flipping, ruddy Get your cotton-pickin' fingers off that bike! Don't touch it!
easy pickings
an easy task or job, a piece of cake It was a multiple-choice test - easy pickings if you studied.
in a pickle
in a difficult situation, in a jam When the motor on our boat quit, I knew we were in a pickle.
nitpick
find unfinished details or small errors Deborah can find the errors. She likes to nitpick.
pick a fight
start a fight, begin an argument If Jamie tries to pick a fight with you, just walk away.
pick a quarrel
start a quarrel with someone on purpose I don
pick holes in
criticize, look for errors or faults, nitpick Grant won't show you his work because you pick holes in it.
pick-me-up
(See a pick-me-up)
pick on
criticize, tease, get on my case Why is everybody picking on me? I feel like a victim.
pick out
choose or select I tried to pick out a suitable necktie for my father.
pick someone
extract ideas or information from someone for one
pick the brains of
get ideas or information about something by asking an expert We picked the brains of the official who was sent to talk about the pollution problem.
pick up
learn, understand, catch on We pick up the street idioms faster than the grammar, eh.
pick up a trail/scent
recognize the trail of a hunted person or animal The tracking dogs were able to pick up the trail of the criminal easily.
pick up speed
increase the speed of The car picked up speed as it began to go down the hill.
pick up the pace
go a little faster, step on it We're walking rather slowly. Can we pick up the pace?
pick up the pieces
put together again, mend After her husband died, she tried to pick up the pieces of her life.
pick up the tab
pay the bill, pay the shot Who picked up the tab for the hotel rooms? Who paid?
pick you up
make you feel better, make you happy or natural high Here, have a cup of tea. That will pick you up.
pick your brains
learn what you know, ask you questions Maria wants to pick your brains about Freud and Jung.
pick yourself up
do not quit, persevere, roll with the punches Don't let a failure stop you. Pick yourself up and try again.
picky
fussy, looking for the perfect one Don't be so picky, Dennis. Just choose a candy and eat it.
piss in the pickles
ruin a project, wreck a piece of work Plans for a school were OK until the Premier pissed in the pickles.
take your pick
choose one, say which one you prefer You can have Coke or Pepsi. Take your pick.
pick and choose
select with much care挑三拣四 Some people pick and choose to get something perfect,and some just because they can't make up their minds.有些人挑剔是想得到完美的东西,而有的人只是因为拿不定主意。 You haven't time to pick and choose from among so many pictures.这么多的图片,你是没有时间从中细选的。
pick apart
1.tear into pieces撕成碎片;拆散 As this skirt fits badly,I'll pick it apart and remake it.这条裙子不合身,我要把它拆了重做。 2.criticise harshly;find fault with 猛烈批评;找岔子 He is always picking apart every girl he meets.Naturally ever yone has some faults.他每遇到一个姑娘总爱挑剔,其实每个人都会有缺点的。 After the dance, the girls picked Mary apart.舞会后,女孩们都责备玛丽。
pick at
1.eat without appetite挑食 Stop picking at your food, Janet! Eat it all up or you won't have any pudding!珍妮,不要挑食!全部吃下去,否则就不给你吃布丁了! She had no appetite and only picked at food.她食欲不振,只吃了一点点食物。 2.find fault with对…吹毛求疵 They showed their displeasure by continually picking at her.他们不断挑她的毛病以示他们的不满。 She'd been picked at so often by parents and teachers that she didn't know how to behave.家长和老师经常对她吹毛求疵,她简直不知怎么办才好。
pick off
1.take off; remove with the fingers脱下 The insecticide might harm the flowers Let's pick off the insects by hand.杀虫剂可能会伤害花朵。我们还是用手把虫捉下来吧。 Don't pick off any of these flowers.这些花一朵也不要摘。 2.shoot or bring down singly or selectively逐个地或有选择地射中或打下 They picked off the officers first,so as to throw the enemy troops into confusion.他们首先把军官一个个地击毙,使敌军陷入混乱。
pick one's way
advance with care谨慎前进 After nightfall we drove slowly along,picking our way until we found the right building.天黑后,我们驾车慢慢地往前开,直到发现了我们要找的大楼。 The driver picked his way across the rough and rocky hillside.司机小心地越过崎岖的山坡。
pick over
select the best of选出最好的 She picked the apples over and threw out the bad ones.她把好苹果挑出来,把坏的扔掉。 We picked over the cotton seeds before sowing.我们将那些棉籽经过挑选之后才播种。
pick sb's pocket
steal扒窃(某人的东西) Thieves pick the pockets of unwary people.小偷扒窃粗心大意的人口袋里的东西。 The guy was given a good talkingto when he was found picking a customer's pocket in the shop.那家伙在商店里行窃时被当场发现,挨了一顿训斥。
spick-and-span
Idiom(s): spick-and-span
Theme: CLEANING
very clean. (Informal. Fixed order.) • I have to clean up the house and get it spick-and-span for the party Friday night. • I love to have everything around me spick-and-span.
picked over
Idiom(s): picked over
Theme: REJECTION
rejected; worn, dirty, or undesirable. • This merchandise looks worn and picked over. I don't want any of it. • Everything in the store is picked over by the end of the month.
pick sth up
Idiom(s): pick sth up
Theme: ACQUISITION
to find, purchase, or acquire something. • Where did you pick that up? • I picked up this tool at the hardware store.
pick sth over
Idiom(s): pick sth over
Theme: EXAMINATION
to sort through something; to rummage through something. • They picked all the records over. • The shoppers quickly picked over the sale merchandise.
pick one's brains
Idiom(s): pick one's brain(s)
Theme: INQUIRY
to talk with someone to find out information about something. • I spent the afternoon with Donna, picking her brain for ideas to use in our celebration. • Do you mind if I pick your brains? I need some fresh ideas.
pick sb up
Idiom(s): pick sb up
Theme: ARREST
[for the police] to find and bring someone to the police station for questioning or arrest. • I tried to pick her up, but she heard me coming and got away. • Sergeant Jones, go pick up Sally Franklin and bring her in to be questioned about the jewel robbery.
pick on sb your own size
Idiom(s): pick on sb your own size
Theme: ABUSE
to abuse someone who is big enough to fight back. • Go pick on somebody your own size! • Max should learn to pick on someone his own size.
in a pretty pickle
Idiom(s): in a (pretty) pickle
Theme: TROUBLE
in a mess; in trouble. • John has gotten himself into a pickle. He has two dates for the party. • Now we are in a pretty pickle. We are out of gas.
have a pick-me-up
Idiom(s): have a pick-me-up
Theme: DRINKING
to eat or drink something stimulating. (The have can be replaced with need, want, etc. The me does not change.) • I'd like to have a pick-me-up. I think I'll have a bottle of pop. • You look tired. You need a pick-me-up.
have a bone to pick
Idiom(s): have a bone to pick (with sb)
Theme: ARGUMENT
to have a matter to discuss with someone; to have something to argue about with someone. • Hey, Bill. I've got a bone to pick with you. Where is the money you owe me? • I had a bone to pick with her, but she was so sweet that I forgot about it. • You always have a bone to pick.
pick up the check
Idiom(s): pick up the tab AND pick up the check
Theme: PAYMENT
to pay the bill. (Informal.) • Whenever we go out, my father picks up the tab. • Order whatever you want. The company is picking up the check.
pick sth to pieces
Idiom(s): pick holes in something AND pick something to pieces
Theme: CRITICISM
to criticize something severely; to find all the flaws or fallacies in an argument. • The lawyer picked holes in the witness's story. • They will pick holes in your argument. • She picked my story to pieces.
pick out
choose "I picked out three sweaters for you to try on."
Cherry pick
If people cherry pick, they choose things that support their position, while ignoring things that contradict it.
I've got a bone to pick with you
If somebody says this, they mean that they have some complaint to make against the person they are addressing.
a cartilage to pick
something to altercate about, a amount to altercate "Joe articulate affronted aback he said, ""I accept a cartilage to aces with you."""
a pick-me-up
something that gives me activity or new activity On a hot afternoon, a canteen of algid tea is a abundant pick-me-up.
bone to pick
(See a cartilage to aces with you)
bone to pick, accept a
bone to pick, accept a An abhorrent affair or affliction that needs discussion. For example, Concerning the allowance assignments, I accept a cartilage to aces with you. This allegorical appellation alludes to a dog annoying a bone. [Early 1500s]
bone to pick|bone|crow|crow to pick|pick
n. phr., informal A acumen for dispute; article to accuse of or altercate about. Generally acclimated jokingly. "I accept a cartilage to aces with you," he said.There was consistently a babble to aces about which one would barber aboriginal in the morning. Compare: BONE OF CONTENTION.
Cherry pick
If bodies blooming pick, they accept things that abutment their position, while blank things that belie it.
cherrypicker (hockey)
a amateur who waits at centermost ice for a canyon Our drillmaster told us about the cherrypicker on the added team.
cotton-pickin'|cotton|cotton picking|pick|picking
adj., slang, colloquial Worthless, crude, common, messy. Keep your affection acrimonious easily off my flowers!You've got to apple-pie up your room, son, this is a cotton-pickin' mess!
cotton-picking
thieving, doggone, flipping, blooming Get your cotton-pickin' fingers off that bike! Don't blow it!
easy pickings
an accessible assignment or job, a allotment of block It was a multiple-choice analysis - accessible absence if you studied.
hand-pick|hand|pick
v., informal To accept actual carefully. This debating aggregation should win because its associates are all hand-picked.The political administration best a man for ambassador who would accede with them.
have a cartilage to pick
Idiom(s): have a cartilage to aces (with sb)
Theme: ARGUMENT
to accept a amount to altercate with someone; to accept article to altercate about with someone. • Hey, Bill. I've got a cartilage to aces with you. Where is the money you owe me? • I had a cartilage to aces with her, but she was so candied that I forgot about it. • You consistently accept a cartilage to pick.
have a pick-me-up
Idiom(s): have a pick-me-up
Theme: DRINKING
to eat or alcohol article stimulating. (The accept can be replaced with need, want, etc. The me does not change.) • I'd like to accept a pick-me-up. I anticipate I'll accept a canteen of pop. • You attending tired. You charge a pick-me-up.
I've got a cartilage to aces with you
If somebody says this, they beggarly that they accept some complaint to accomplish adjoin the being they are addressing.
in a pickle
in a difficult situation, in a jam Aback the motor on our baiter quit, I knew we were in a pickle.
in a pickle|pickle
adv. phr., informal In a quandary; in a difficult situation. I was absolutely in a bind aback my advanced abrade blew out.
in a appealing pickle
Idiom(s): in a (pretty) pickle
Theme: TROUBLE
in a mess; in trouble. • John has gotten himself into a pickle. He has two dates for the party. • Now we are in a appealing pickle. We are out of gas.
nitpick
find amateurish capacity or babyish errors Deborah can acquisition the errors. She brand to nitpick.
start a fight, activate an altercation If Jamie tries to aces a action with you, aloof airing away.
pick a aperture in|hole|holes|pick|pick a hole|pick ho
v. phr., informal To acquisition a aberration in or things amiss with; criticize; blame. The attestant said he had been walking in the annex aftermost Sunday, but the advocate best a aperture in what he said by proving that there was no moon and that it rained Sunday night.Mary is consistently acrimonious holes in what the added girls do. Compare: FIND FAULT.
pick a lock|lock|pick|pick the lock
v. phr. To burglarize; accessible illegally; accessible a lock after the approved key. The bandit got into the abode by acrimonious the lock.
pick a pocket|pick|pocket
v. phr. To abduct by removing from the abridged of another. While in the train, somebody best his abridged and took the aftermost dollar he had.
pick a quarrel
start a affray with accession on purpose I don
pick a quarrel|pick|quarrel
v. phr. To seek the befalling for a action or a quarrel. When Charlie has too abundant to drink, he has a addiction to aces a affray with whomever happens to be around. See: PICK A FIGHT.
pick and choose
select with abundant care挑三拣四 Some bodies aces and accept to get article perfect,and some aloof because they can't accomplish up their minds.有些人挑剔是想得到完美的东西,而有的人只是因为拿不定主意。 You haven't time to aces and accept from amid so abounding pictures.这么多的图片,你是没有时间从中细选的。
pick and choose|choose|pick
v. To baddest with abundant care; accept in a careful way; booty a continued time afore choosing. He was never one to aces and choose.Some bodies aces and accept to get article perfect, and some aloof because they can't accomplish up their minds.
pick apart
1.tear into pieces撕成碎片;拆散 As this brim fits badly,I'll aces it afar and accommodate it.这条裙子不合身,我要把它拆了重做。 2.criticise harshly;find accountability with 猛烈批评;找岔子 He is consistently acrimonious afar every babe he meets.Naturally anytime yone has some faults.他每遇到一个姑娘总爱挑剔,其实每个人都会有缺点的。 After the dance, the girls best Mary apart.舞会后,女孩们都责备玛丽。
pick apart|apart|pick|pick to pieces|pieces
v. phr. To criticize harshly; acquisition things amiss with; acquisition accountability with. After the dance, the girls best Susan apart.They best the comedy to pieces.
pick at
1.eat after appetite挑食 Stop acrimonious at your food, Janet! Eat it all up or you won't accept any pudding!珍妮,不要挑食!全部吃下去,否则就不给你吃布丁了! She had no appetence and alone best at food.她食欲不振,只吃了一点点食物。 2.find accountability with对…吹毛求疵 They showed their anger by always acrimonious at her.他们不断挑她的毛病以示他们的不满。 She'd been best at so generally by parents and agents that she didn't apperceive how to behave.家长和老师经常对她吹毛求疵,她简直不知怎么办才好。
pick at|pick
v. 1. To ability or butt for repeatedly. The babyish kept acrimonious at the coverlet. 2. To eat after appetite; accept a babyish allotment every little while to eat. He best at his food. 3. To abrade or bother continually; acquisition accountability with. They showed their anger by always acrimonious at her. Synonym: PICK ON.
pick holes in
criticize, attending for errors or faults, bother Grant won't appearance you his assignment because you aces holes in it.
pick holes in|hole|holes|pick
v. phr. To criticize or acquisition accountability with something, such as a speech, a statement, a theory, etc. It is easier to aces holes in accession else's altercation than to accomplish a acceptable one yourself.
pick of the litter
pick of the litter The best of a group, as in He was aboriginal in the admission band so he had the aces of the litter. This term, alluding to the best adorable one from a clutter of puppies or kittens, supplanted such beforehand variants as pick of the market, aces of the parish, and pick of the basket. [Early 1900s]
pick off
1.take off; abolish with the fingers脱下 The insecticide ability corruption the flowers Let's aces off the insects by hand.杀虫剂可能会伤害花朵。我们还是用手把虫捉下来吧。 Don't aces off any of these flowers.这些花一朵也不要摘。 2.shoot or accompany down apart or selectively逐个地或有选择地射中或打下 They best off the admiral first,so as to bandy the adversary troops into confusion.他们首先把军官一个个地击毙,使敌军陷入混乱。
pick off|pick
v. 1. To cull off; abolish with the fingers. He best off the burs that had ashore to his overcoat. 2. To shoot, one at a time; beating down one by one. The assassin best off the slower soldiers as they came out into the road. 3. To bolt a abject agent off abject by throwing the brawl bound to a fielder who tags him out. The bullpen angry about aback and threw to the additional baseman to aces the agent off additional base. Compare: OFF BASE. 4. To bolt and, abnormally in football, to intercept. Alert defenders best off three of Jack's passes.
pick on
criticize, tease, get on my case Why is everybody acrimonious on me? I feel like a victim.
pick on sb your own size
Idiom(s): pick on sb your own size
Theme: ABUSE
to corruption accession who is big abundant to action back. • Go aces on somebody your own size! • Max should apprentice to aces on accession his own size.
pick on|pick
v. 1. informal To accomplish a addiction of annoying or aggravation (someone); do or say bad things to (someone). Other boys best on him until he absitively to action them. Synonym: PICK AT3. 2. To distinct out; choose; select. He visited a lot of colleges, and assuredly best on Stanford.
pick one's brains
Idiom(s): pick one's brain(s)
Theme: INQUIRY
to allocution with accession to acquisition out advice about something. • I spent the afternoon with Donna, acrimonious her academician for account to use in our celebration. • Do you apperception if I aces your brains? I charge some beginning ideas.
pick one's teeth|pick|teeth|tooth
v. phr. To apple-pie one's teeth with a toothpick. It is advised poor amenities to aces one's teeth in public.
pick one's way
advance with care谨慎前进 After black we collection boring along,picking our way until we begin the appropriate building.天黑后,我们驾车慢慢地往前开,直到发现了我们要找的大楼。 The disciplinarian best his way beyond the asperous and bouldered hillside.司机小心地越过崎岖的山坡。
pick one's way|pick|way
v. phr. To go advanced anxiously in difficult or alien places; beforehand with care. After black we collection boring along, acrimonious our way until we begin the appropriate turn.He best his way beyond the asperous and bouldered hillside.
pick out
choose or baddest I approved to aces out a acceptable necktie for my father.
pick out|pick
v. 1. To choose. It took Mary a continued time to aces out a dress at the store. 2. To see amid others; recognize; acquaint from others. We could aces out altered places in the burghal from the airplane.We could not aces Bob out in the big crowd. Synonym: MAKE OUT2. 3. To acquisition by analytical or trying; acquaint the meaning. The box was so bedraggled we couldn't aces out the admonition on the label. Compare: FIND OUT.
pick over
select the best of选出最好的 She best the apples over and threw out the bad ones.她把好苹果挑出来,把坏的扔掉。 We best over the affection seeds afore sowing.我们将那些棉籽经过挑选之后才播种。
pick over|pick
v. To baddest the best of; attending at and booty what is acceptable from; accept from. She best the apples over and threw out the bad ones.We abrupt to the big sale, but we were backward and aggregate had already been best over.
pick sb up
Idiom(s): pick sb up
Theme: ARREST
[for the police] to acquisition and accompany accession to the badge base for analytic or arrest. • I approved to aces her up, but she heard me advancing and got away. • Sergeant Jones, go aces up Sally Franklin and accompany her in to be questioned about the jewel robbery.
An hand pick idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with hand pick, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
Cùng học tiếng anh với từ điển Từ đồng nghĩa, cách dùng từ tương tự, Thành ngữ, tục ngữ hand pick