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[pick to pieces]

See:

[PICK APART],

[PICK HOLES IN].

[pickup]  {n.}, (stress on "pick")

1. A rugged, small truck.

When he got into the lumber business, Max traded in his comfortable two-door sedan for a pickup.

2. Scheduled meeting in order to transfer merchandise or stolen goods.

* /The pickup  […]

[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.

*  […]

[pick up the tab]  {v. phr.}

To pay the bill in a restaurant; be the one who underwrites financially what others are doing.

"I am always the one who picks up the tab," Charlie complained bitterly. "Others get away with being freeloaders."

Compare:  […]

[Pidgin English]  {n. phr.}

A jargon that consists of some mispronounced English words and some foreign words used by Orientals in talking with Westerners.

[pie]

See:

[EAT HUMBLE PIE],

[EASY AS PIE],

[FINGER IN THE PIE],

[PIE IN THE SKY],

[PIE-EYED],

[SWEETIE PIE].

[piece]

See:

[BY THE PIECE],

[CONVERSATION PIECE],

[GIVE A PIECE OF ONE'S MIND],

[GO TO PIECES],

[OF A PIECE],

[PIECE OF CAKE],

[SAY ONE'S PIECE] or [SPEAK ONE'S PIECE],

[TO PIECES].

[piece of cake]  {adj.},  {slang}

Easy.

[piece out]  {v.}

1. To put together from many different pieces; put together from odd parts; patch.

They pieced out a meal from leftovers.

He pieced out the machine with scrap parts.

* /The detective pieced out the story from a stray fact  […]

[piecework]  {n.}

Work paid for in accordance with the quantity produced.