| 释义 |
pick nitschiefly North American Look for and criticize trivial faults; nit-pick: the press will stop picking nits once the next president is in office...- And while I'm picking nits, I must add my opinion of Furst's female characters.
- But these ideas would require a boldness and ingenuity that cannot come from candidates shackled to the very interests that profit from today's regressive tax policies, leaving the candidates to think small and pick nits.
- Not to pick nits, but the phrase, ‘Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness’, is from the New Testament.
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