pick at Idiom
pick at
1.eat without appetite挑食
Stop picking at your food, Janet!
Eat it all up or you won't have any pudding!珍妮,不要挑食!全部吃下去,否则就不给你吃布丁了!
She had no appetite and only picked at food.她食欲不振,只吃了一点点食物。
2.find fault with对…吹毛求疵
They showed their displeasure by continually picking at her.他们不断挑她的毛病以示他们的不满。
She'd been picked at so often by parents and teachers that she didn't know how to behave.家长和老师经常对她吹毛求疵,她简直不知怎么办才好。
pick at|pick
v. 1. To reach or grasp for repeatedly.
The baby kept picking at the coverlet. 2. To eat without appetite; choose a small piece every little while to eat.
He picked at his food. 3. To annoy or bother continually; find fault with.
They showed their displeasure by continually picking at her. Synonym: PICK ON.
pick at (one)
To nag, hassle, or berate one, or to be actual analytical of or abrogating about one. My wife has been acrimonious at me consistently anytime back I absent my job. Why are you consistently acrimonious at Jimmy? You apperceive how acute he is.Learn more: pickpick at (something)
1. To cull at article with one's fingertips. If you accumulate acrimonious at those scabs, that scrape is never activity to heal! I consistently aces at the basal of my shirt back I get afraid like that.2. To eat a baby bulk of aliment in tiny bites and after abundant interest. You could acquaint Billy was ailing because he alone best at his banquet and again went appropriate to bed. Why are you acrimonious at your aliment like that? Did you eat article beforehand and blemish your appetite?Learn more: pickpick at someone or something
to be actual analytical of addition or something; to aces on addition or something. Why are you consistently acrimonious at me? The critics best at the little things, missing the austere problems.Learn more: pickpick at something
1. Lit. to try to cull abroad $.25 of something. Don't aces at the bookbinding. It will abatement apart.
2. Fig. to eat aloof a tiny bit of a meal or some affectionate of food. You are aloof acrimonious at your food!Learn more: pickpick at
1. Pluck or cull at, abnormally with the fingers, as in She was consistently acrimonious at her brim with her nails. [1600s]
2. Eat sparingly and after appetite, as in He was aloof acrimonious at his dinner. [Late 1500s]
3. Nag, badger, as in He's acrimonious at me all day long. [Colloquial; additional bisected of 1600s] Learn more: pickpick at
v.
1. To backbone or cull at something, abnormally with the fingers or with a pick: The artist best at the guitar strings. The agriculturalist best at the bugs in the sheep's wool.
2. To eat article sparingly or after appetite: The adolescent best at the vegetables but ate all of the hamburger.
3. To nag someone: Don't aces at me—I'm accomplishing the best I can!
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