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Dictionary of Idioms/Phrasal Verbs

Phrase of the Moment

pick on someone or something

1. to harass or bother someone or something, usually unfairly; to single out for a particular purpose or for special attention

1. Please stop picking on me! I’m tired of it.

2. Why are you picking on me?

3. He gets picked on by the other boys because he's so small.

4. She felt she was being picked on.

5. At school she was a vulnerable little soul and the other girls picked on her.

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