cherry-pick
樱桃小丸子,樱花,樱桃园,挑剔的人
Definitions
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- : to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- 1
- : to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise.
Examples
In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.
Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?
Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.
We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.
The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.
Cherry-tree stems, under the name of agriots, constitute a specialty of Austrian manufacture.
But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.
Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.