Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Pick a Hole in his Coat (To).

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Pick Straws (To).

Pickanin’ny.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Pick a Hole in his Coat (To).

To find fault with one; to fix on some small offence as censurable.

“And shall such mob as thou, not worth a groat,

Dare pick a hole in such a great man’s coat?”

Peter Pindar: Epistle to John Nichols.

Pick Straws (To).

Pickanin’ny.

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