pick apart

present singular third person picks apart · participle present picking apart · participle past picked apart · past picked apart

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart.
2. idiomatictransitiveTo review or analyse in great detail
   1. idiomatictransitiveTo criticise (especially small details).
3. idiomatictransitivehobbiesTo overcome by skilled execution.

   The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.

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   Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.

   2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport