<span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">threads</span> simple past and past participle of pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">threads</span>...
participle picking up the threads of, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">threads</span> of) (transitive) To resume something that was paused or halted....
and past participle <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">threads</span>) (idiomatic) To resume an activity after an interruption; to pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. “pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">threads</span>”, in Lexico, Dictionary...
and pick-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> (third-person singular simple present picks <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, present participle picking <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>) (transitive)...
employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">thread</span> of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes...
molodój žénščiny. Romashov <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">thread</span> again and quietly, almost imperceptibly to himself even, pulled it from <span class="searchmatch">the</span> hand of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> young woman. string (of...
apart or away, especially with <span class="searchmatch">the</span> fingers; to pluck. She <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> flowers in <span class="searchmatch">the</span> meadow. to pick feathers from a fowl To take <span class="searchmatch">up</span>; especially, to gather from...
indefinitely. Growth was dampened by a softening of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> global economy in 2001, but <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> in <span class="searchmatch">the</span> subsequent years due to strong growth in China. 2018...
and gooseberries to be <span class="searchmatch">picked</span>, and when <span class="searchmatch">the</span> apple season came, she had to go round <span class="searchmatch">the</span> orchard several times a-day to pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> fallers. (engineering)...
unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had <span class="searchmatch">picked</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> from <span class="searchmatch">the</span> tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled <span class="searchmatch">the</span> boardinghouse where she had grown <span class="searchmatch">up</span>....