picky about
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6.8
- idiom
- /ˈpɪki əˈbaʊt/
- Informal
:
exigente con
- I am not picky about jobs.
- pretty picky about
- very picky about
- picky about food
Law firms are not known for being particularly picky about their clients.
- Law firms are not known for being particularly picky about their clients.
- Very, very picky about my fragrances.
- Typically NVIDIA is pretty pretty picky about what it allows board partners to do for XOC.
- And so I'm really, really picky about who I will give my attention to, social media, podcasts, YouTube books.
- The best part is nanosys can vary their output in one nanometer steps, so they get to be really picky about what color shines out blue.
Examples
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Law firms are not known for being particularly picky about their clients.
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And so I'm really, really picky about who I will give my attention to, social media, podcasts, YouTube books.
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And of course, that means that you are going to have to be extremely picky about what you choose to read.
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Just be very picky about what we buy as an end point in the production cycle.
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So just be very picky about who you choose to be around and let those that get mad be mad.
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Yeah, Bill was very picky about his stereo stuff.
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- I'm kind of picky about what I eat.
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She is picky about food.
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I can't afford to be too picky about where I work or how long I have to be there.
Blog text (28) -
She's quite picky about her clothes, only wearing outfits that match her style.
Synonyms
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
12
7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
4
7.9
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things
Choosy about small details and what they accept
A person who is very picky about what they accept
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Careful about small details and hard to please
Antonyms
How Selective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'very selective regarding X' is directly and compositionally derived from 'picky' (selective) plus the preposition 'about' marking the target domain, so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This is a common, predictable construction in English (and mirrored in many languages), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Picky about may come from the verb pick, which means 'to choose'. Imagine someone picking tiny pieces from their plate or refusing many options; that's why picky about means 'very selective' or 'fussy' about something.