pick and choose

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to choose only those things that you like or want very much

   It's like at the airport. Cabbies can't pick and choose what ride they want.

   It gave me a chance to pick and choose the movies I directed from that moment on.

In the movies · 4

• You're a physicist, you pick and choose rules?Oppenheimer2023
• It's like at the airport. Cabbies can't pick and choose what ride they want.National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
• It gave me a chance to pick and choose the movies I directed from that moment on.Spielberg2017
• And he gets to pick and choose who gets culled, does he?Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• It's not for the whore to say yes sir or no sir It's not for the harlot to pick or to choose Or to lead me a danceLes Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• You cannot pick and choose your boat. Get in.A Night to Remember1958
• We, the US, would invite Soviets to come to the US and pick and choose athletes that they wanted to test,Icarus2017

Learn it in full scenes

• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train
• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
  • Ensler Lets the Witness Talk
  • Ensler Corners the Witness
  • Tessa Comes Home After the Win
• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract

From the same entry

• pick brains
• pick a fight
• pick holes in
• pick a lock
• pick pocket
• pick up the bill, tab
• pick up the pieces
• pick up speed
• pick up the threads
• pick your way
• pick a winner
• have a bone to pick with