to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket

They're going to have to belly up to the bar and take up these difficult issues, said G. William Hoagland, who served as director of budget and appropriations.

This was a golden age—the time before a concerted effort was made to vaginize our boys and grow testicles on our girls.

[…] in my conworld Almea the great navigators of southern Ereláe were the Jei, and undoubtedly Jei-based pidgins sprung up.