Idiom
pick on someone your own size
Meaning
An admonition of cowardice, usually said to make someone cease harassing or bullying someone else, especially where the bullied party is physically smaller or weaker than the bully.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop teasing him and pick on someone your own size.”
“When the older boy started pushing the younger child, a bystander shouted that he should pick on someone his own size.”
“The crowd watched in silence as the bully taunted the smaller student, until a teacher intervened and sternly told him to pick on someone his own size.”
Examples
simple
“Stop teasing him and pick on someone your own size.”
contextual
“When the older boy started pushing the younger child, a bystander shouted that he should pick on someone his own size.”
complex
“The crowd watched in silence as the bully taunted the smaller student, until a teacher intervened and sternly told him to pick on someone his own size.”
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