- have (your) pick of (something)
- have (your) pick of (something)
if you can have your pick of a group of things, you can have the one you want.
The plane was fairly empty, so we had our pick of the seats.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
have (your) pick of (something)
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have your pick of something — phrase to be able to choose anyone or anything you want from a group She could have had her pick of the best jobs in the company. Thesaurus: choices and the process of choosingsynonym Main entry: pick … Useful english dictionary
have your pick of something — to be able to choose anyone or anything you want from a group She could have had her pick of the best jobs in the company … 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
pick — I UK [pɪk] / US verb [transitive] Word forms pick : present tense I/you/we/they pick he/she/it picks present participle picking past tense picked past participle picked *** 1) a) to choose someone or something from a group Out of all the girls he … 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 — [[t]pɪ̱k[/t]] ♦♦ picks, picking, picked 1) VERB If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one. [V n] Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London... [V n] I had deliberately picked a city with a… … English dictionary
pick*/*/*/ — [pɪk] verb [T] I 1) to choose someone or something from a group Each month we pick a novel, and we all read it and discuss it.[/ex] The following season he was picked for the national team.[/ex] 2) to get flowers or fruit by breaking them off… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
have — [ weak əv, həv, strong hæv ] (3rd person singular has [ weak əz, həz, strong hæz ] ; past tense and past participle had [ weak əd, həd, strong hæd ] ) verb *** Have can be used in the following ways: as an auxiliary verb in perfect tenses of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pick up — {v.} 1. To take up; lift. * /During the morning Mrs. Carter picked up sticks in the yard./ 2. {informal} To pay for someone else. * /After lunch, in the restaurant, Uncle Bob picked up the check./ 3. To take on or away; receive; get. * /At the… … Dictionary of American idioms
