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pick and choose

  1. Select with great care, as in John and Kate loved to go to the pastry shop, especially if they had time to pick and choose. Despite its redundancy (pick and choose are synonyms), this phrase has survived since the 1400s.



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United States men's coach Mauricio Pochettino has told his players they cannot pick and choose which games they will be available for.

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“We were asking for the rule, the specific rule of what she did, and they didn’t really give anything. It was more of a gray area that gives them discretion to pick and choose what they feel is unsportsmanlike conduct.”

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But it wasn't always so easy to pick and choose her times to write.

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“Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible” also largely catered to different audiences, lowering the risk that audiences would pick and choose between similar films.

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“I feel like I got to have a normal life, and Paul got to have a normal life too, and pick and choose when he wanted to be fawned over.”

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