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      [Verb]  | "pick out" 


      1: discern, make out

      2: to play the notes of by ear or one by one


      Origin: 1540 ;

       [ "Picking out curtains" ]

      1: A point in a relationship when you're so close with the person you're dating that moving in together is all but certain. You literally begin picking out curtains for your future apartment together.

        * e.g.,  ... Jake: What happened with you and Ruth? I heard you two broke up. 

       [ "pick me out a hat!" ]

      1: A goofball comment directed at a person picking their nose to let them know they’ve been spotted.

        * e.g.,  ... Hey man, why don’t you pick me out a hat! 

       [ "picked me out of the crapper" ]

      1: to be cheered up.

        * e.g.,  ... Amy: so anyway, guess what (: mell: whyaat? Amy: me n sam made up... (: 


       [ "picked me out of the crapper" ]

      2: when you are IN the crapper, you are feeling down or depressed or something.

        * e.g.,  ... mell: oh wow ! :D Amy: Yea, really picked me out of the crapper tbh :D 


       [ "picked me out of the crapper" ]

      3: To be "thrown in the crapper" is wen something puts you down or upsets/depresses you.


       [ "picked me out of the crapper" ]

      4: Therefore, if something "picks you out of the crapper" it makes you happier (:

       [ "pick that one out" ]

      1: When the goalkeeper gets absolutely owned by a top bins screamer and is forced to 'pick that one out' of the net for kick off.

        * e.g.,  ... MATT: 'Top bins watch it' *Pelts it top bins* 'YEAH BILLY, PICK THAT ONE OUT' 

       [ "picking nuts out of monkey shit" ]

      1: Making a big deal out of something so meaningless. Usually done in order to save a few dollars and/or headaches, but disregarding the big picture.

        * e.g.,  ... Jon: "My customer wants this specific package installed on the vehicle he's buying." 

       [ "Picking the sense out of the nonsense" ]

      1: To get the truth or importance out of someone's story. To grasp the point of a story.

        * e.g.,  ... Me:"I have this friend,and she is in world of trouble. She needs to borrow $300 to pay her rent,and I don't know how to help her" You:"So you need money to pay YOUR rent?" Me:"Wow,how did you know?" You:":eyeroll:PICKING THE SENSE OUT OF THE NONSENSE is what I do,dumbass" 

       [ "I'm picking the corn out your shit" ]

      1: 1) Understanding what another person is saying, 2) Hearing the main points of a conversation, lecture or instructions and filtering out the rest

        * e.g.,  ... Many uses for this phrase, "Get to the Point Man, I'm having to pick the corn out your shit here" "I'm picking the corn out your shit, I smell what your steppin' in, I'm picking up what you're putting down, I've been there before, it'll be alright" 

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