pick holes

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pick holes (third-person singular simple present picks holes, present participle picking holes, simple past and past participle picked holes)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
    • 2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News‎[1]:
      The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.
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