pick on sb
— phrasal verb with pick uk/pɪk/us/pɪk/verb
B2 to criticize, punish, or be unkind to the same person often and unfairly:
He gets picked on by the other boys because he's so small.
More examples
- Why are you picking on me?
- Stop picking on me!
- She felt she was being picked on.
- At school she was a vulnerable little soul and the other girls picked on her.
- I hope he didn't think I was picking on him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating people or animals badly
- a raw deal idiom
- at the hands of sb idiom
- batten
- batten on sb
- be heavy on sb idiom
- bleed
- grind
- jerk
- jerk sb around
- knife
- knock
- knock sb around
- put sb through sth
- shit on sb
- shortchange
- shove
- shove sb around
- smite
- torment
- walk all over sb idiom
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