WordNet
pick over
v. separate or remove; "The customer picked over the selection" [syn: sieve out]
Usage examples of "pick over".
He would pick over the wreckage at his leisure before leaving the city.
Kaim opened his mind, like the net of a fisherman, spilling a mixed lot of information which Goonar knew he and Basil would pick over at leisure.
There were a few things Holloway wanted to get clearly understood with the battalion commander before he went back to Holloway Station, and George Lunt had a few points he wanted to pick over, as well.
Civilized people didn't parade around naked, everything personal on display for any passing observer to pick over and chortle at, nude and helplessly exposed in their deepest feelings!