pick apart
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To examine something very carefully and find everything wrong with it.
"The examiner picked apart every section of the student's thesis during the viva."
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HAMILTON: I think you pick apart these different crises,
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Over-analyze my dreams and pick apart the seams,
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Okay, that's not too hard to pick apart.
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and they went one pick apart from each other.
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InsomiaPodcast · 11:09
to pick apart these stories with you the feeling