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“Pick holes in something”in other languages

Find fault, often over small things.

  • English
  • Dutch
  • French
  • Portuguese
English
pick holes in
Dutch
gaten schieten in literally To shoot holes in
French
Chercher la petite bête literally To look for the little beast
Portuguese
botar defeito literally To place a defect
Behind the words

Same idea, different pictures

English and Dutch make holes: picking them in cloth, or shooting them, gaten schieten in. French goes looking for the little beast, chercher la petite bête, the louse you'd comb for, hair by hair.

Brazilian Portuguese finds a defect, botar defeito, even where there's none.

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