What is "pickings"

Usage examples of "pickings".

The pickings were rich in neighborhoods like this, but it meant a three to five year loss of a right hand if caught.

The one thing you didn't worry about, when the pickings got lean, was your figure.

Small minded hustlers, whose inability to head for richer pickings made them think of themselves as local entrepreneurs, jealously guarded minor league rackets.

No matter how good the pickings might become, he really couldn't see the set-up at The Rising Sun lasting very long, and, when the end came, he feared it might be less than pleasant.

This diverse group of mammals had continued to proliferate and diverge, and now there were some nocturnal flyers who had lost their eyes altogether, others who had learned to compete with the birds for the richer pickings of the day.

Halsey's first hit-and-run raid against the Japs would not amount to much if the pickings were no better at the other-atolls.

Emboldened by the easy pickings, the German skippers had even taken to surfacing and sinking ships with gunfire, so as to save torpedoes.

There were plenty of more tempting targets, even if the soldiers strayed into this neighborhood despite richer pickings elsewhere.

Hopefully they'd stick with attacking the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo and the rich folks' houses, where the good pickings were.

They say they would steal dogshit from the gutter, but there are better pickings in Rome.

They weren't just a random group of soldiers looking for easy pickings, a head start on the looting.

They wheeled away to other pickings, to the offal-piles in Badside, the fish market in Pelorus Fields.

But there were easier pickings in the taverns in the Trade City, if all they wanted was a bedwarmer.