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To point out (a person's behaviour, habits or actions),in a critical manner.
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She's always picking me up on my grammar
Submitted on September 28, 2010
Modified by rinat on April 28, 2023
More phrases:
- play up
- rip off
- run across
- run down
- scrape off
- square away
- start up
- at a loss for words
- at the wheel
- bells and whistles
- blow off steam
- brass ring
- cake crumbs
- daily grind
- feather in one's cap
- get off
- go without saying
- have a word with
- have truck with
- hustle and bustle
- in heaven's name
- keep one on one's toes
- keep your hair on
- kindred soul
- let her rip
- light up
- lump in one's throat
- muckety muck
- no slouch
- off the mark
- on thin ice
- one fell swoop
- one of those days
- pound the pavement
- pull one's head in
- put one over
- rough trot
- see someone through
- sell ice to eskimos
- send up
- sign in
- stroke of work
- toot one's own horn
- up in the air
- virgin territory
- water under the bridge
- willy nilly
- yellow-bellied
- safe and sound
- drop out of warp
- worth the risk
- the sky is the limit
- happy
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- adroit
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- went to the winds
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- just get on with [it]
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