Meaning of pick apart | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart.
2. To review or analyse in great detail
   idiomatic, transitive
3. To criticise (especially small details).
   idiomatic, transitive
4. To overcome by skilled execution.
   idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.”

“Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.”

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