In '97, I came out of prison and tried to pick up the threads of my life.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
pick up the threads — pick up/take up/the threads phrase to start doing something again that you had stopped doing I picked up the threads of ordinary life again. Thesaurus: to do something again, or to start againsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
pick up the threads of something — pick up the threads of (something) to try to start something again, especially after problems prevented you from continuing it. In 97, I came out of prison and tried to pick up the threads of my life … New idioms dictionary
take up the threads — pick up/take up/the threads phrase to start doing something again that you had stopped doing I picked up the threads of ordinary life again. Thesaurus: to do something again, or to start againsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
pick — pick1 W1S1 [pık] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(choose something)¦ 2¦(flowers/fruit etc)¦ 3¦(remove something)¦ 4 pick your way through/across/among etc something 5 pick your nose 6 pick your teeth 7 pick somebody s brains 8 pick a quarrel/fight (with… … Dictionary of contemporary English
pick — 1 /pIk/ verb (T) 1 CHOOSE STH to choose someone or something good or suitable from a group or range of people or things: Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15. | Let me pick a few examples at random. | pick your words (=be careful … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
pick up — phrasal verb Word forms pick up : present tense I/you/we/they pick up he/she/it picks up present participle picking up past tense picked up past participle picked up 1) [transitive] to lift someone or something up from a surface He picked the… … English dictionary
pick — pick1 [ pık ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to choose someone or something from a group: Out of all the girls he could have gone out with, he picked me. pick someone/something for something: She was picked for the school play. pick someone to do… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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