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pick on (someone or something)

1. To harass, bully, or tease someone or something. If kids are picking on you at school, you need to tell me or your teacher about it. They accused the country of picking on nations smaller and weaker than itself.

2. To focus on someone or something, especially to an excessive degree. I don't understand why the boss is picking on my contribution to the project, when everyone was equally to blame. The government has been picking on the housing market in its campaign for regulatory reforms.

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pick on someone or something

to harass or bother someone or something, usually unfairly. Please stop picking on me! I'm tired of it. You shouldn't pick on the cat.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pick on

Tease, bully, victimize, as in She told Mom the boys were always picking on her. [Second half of 1800s] This expression is sometimes put as pick on someone your own size, meaning "don't badger someone who is younger, smaller, or weaker than yourself but do so only to an equal."

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pick on

v.

To treat someone badly or unfairly, especially by teasing or bullying: My big sister always picks on me. The kids at school pick on him for wearing glasses.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• pick on
• make game of (someone or something)
• make sport of (someone or something)
• sport with
• sport with (someone or something)
• tease into doing
• take (something) in good part
• take something in good part

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A triangular or tear dropped shaped piece of plastic use to pluck the stings of a guitar. At first glance they appear inanimate ordinary plastic; however guitar picks are actually made from a very rare from of sentient plastic that has a tendency to roam around when left unattended. Their adventures can last up to two full weeks, and while most picks usually return to their place of origin, a poor sense of direction cause many to become lost, and some even intentionally run away. Picks also have a unique telepathic ability and can sense peoples joy, the more one enjoys using a particular pick, the more likely it is to abandon its owner.

I just bought 200 picks at the music store, by the time I actually went to play guitar I could only find one.

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A small, piece of plastic often triangular or "teardrop" in shape.

Guitar picks come in varying colors and thicknesses (thin, medium, hard, etc.) and can only be bought in packs.

Also an alternative term for "pluck", as in, to "pick" a string.

I just bought a pack of 2,000 picks on eBay.

Pick your 4th string, I think it's out of tune.

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