- Idiom – Cherry-pick or cherry pick.
- Meaning – To selectively choose only the best or most suitable from a number of options. To choose things that support your position, while ignoring things that contradict it. To only select things that are beneficial.
- The expression cherry-pick is often used to signify that somebody is choosing something just to gain some kind of advantage or prove a particular point.
- This expression is a metaphor and comes from the idea of picking through a bowl of cherries to select the best ones for yourself.
Example:
- “I don’t trust that newspaper because they just cherry-pick stories to support their opinions.”
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- Is there an idiom like this in your country?
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally. An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words, but has a separate meaning of its own.