VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Cherry Pick

Meaning:

To select the best or most desirable

Examples:

  • Obviously, we'll get to cherry-pick the best clients.
  • You think you can just cherry-pick the details as you see fit?
  • You don't get to cherry-pick the law, Counselor.
  • We do not have the institutional right to cherry-pick amongst the College of Commissioners.
  • It's voluntary, so they can cherry-pick the ones that look healthy.
  • You don't get to cherry-pick.
  • But we should not cherry-pick from the single market, nor continue to get it wrong.
  • Services will be reduced as potential competitors cherry-pick only the profitable areas of business, meaning less development in the sector.
  • Where it sees others succeeding, Google can cherry-pick those ideas and launch its own competing commercial services, to which it grants highly uncompetitive advantages.
  • We cannot have a common policy that imposes Community-level restrictions and then leaves it to the Member States to cherry-pick the problems they solve depending on the funds they have available.