Idiom
pick holes
Meaning
To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is easy to pick holes in someone else's work.”
“The manager loves to pick holes in every report I submit, even when the data is accurate.”
“Rather than offering constructive feedback, the critic spent the entire evening trying to pick holes in the author's complex argument.”
Examples
simple
“It is easy to pick holes in someone else's work.”
contextual
“The manager loves to pick holes in every report I submit, even when the data is accurate.”
complex
“Rather than offering constructive feedback, the critic spent the entire evening trying to pick holes in the author's complex argument.”
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