"pick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They only talk like that because mowing the lawn sounds great when you're sitting in a foxhole picking lice off your nuts.
- Her only consolation was that these people certainly picked nits, lice, fleas and what have you quite regularly.
- Bad enough he picked lice from her hair in front of an audience, but to tell his best friend that he had slept with her?
- They said that darkness reigned during winter but that the summers were bright enough to pick lice from one's clothing.
- The start of school can also mean the start of head lice season, and the unpleasant choice of picking lice out or poisoning them.
- Out in front of the huts, a few toddlers stood stoically in the mud as bored young mothers picked lice from their hair.
- When human excrement had become ankle-deep between the lodges and people were picking lice from each other's heads for food, the relief force at last arrived.
- I said I'm going home,' repeated Twoflower, making polite little attempts to shake off the librarian, who was trying to pick lice off him.
- You're picking lice off yourself, you're pushing the cops, you've been arrested, you're raping and molesting!
- Three slaves were sitting on the floor in a corner, picking lice out of clothes.
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