pick holes informal , auch: pick something to pieces

And yet even here I am going to pick holes.

Come below and pick holes in an idea I have.

They would have been hard pressed to pick holes in what he says.

That's all they were any good at - picking holes.

I cannot understand why the other institutions should wish to pick holes in Amendment 24.

He does best running inside, picking holes out of the I-formation set.

Everyone had passed the time picking holes in Cranston's story.

After all, we're trying to pick holes in it.

(a) It's a great opportunity to pick holes in the way the class is conducted.

He's able to cross from either flank, and while on the right he has the vision to pick holes when cutting inside.

Given, at least, that Maurice picks holes in all my finest schemes.

That man Fontan was always picking holes in his friends' successes!

We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose?"

Many's the time I've been told to "stop picking holes and just enjoy it" for making observations which go beyond "that was great".

Began to tell his adventures in a vague way, but somebody started to pick holes, and he just shut up like an oyster.

Your solicitor opponent and judge picked holes in your fees.

I was in fair condition, but it wasn't my kind of country, and the pathfinders out ahead were picking holes for people their own size.

They have much more important things to worry about than someone who cannot help them anymore and pundits picking holes in their rotation.

His favourite trick was to pick holes in Opposition argument by quoting from old speeches.

It is amazing how the indoctrinated try to pick holes in Venezuela's democracy, but they cannot.

No one you know,' she says, picking holes in my balled-up serviette.

When I said pick holes in the plan, I meant major flaws.

I would like to point this out without picking holes in a protocol which quite frankly seems rather out-of-date to me.

He picks holes in my literary style, which doesn't seem to suit his high-toned European taste.

"In fact I doubt if you'll ever get married, everlastingly picking holes in people."