The phrase "as pluck" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context for proper usage.
Example: "He faced the challenge with as much pluck as he could muster."
Alternatives: "with courage" or "with determination".
Instead, he joined the large and distinguished Newark law firm of Pitney, Hardin & Skinner, sometimes known as "Pluck 'em, Hook 'em & Skin 'em," where he became an expert in labor law — that is, the management side of labor law.
The phrase carpe diem appears in Horace's Odes (I.11) as part of the injunction "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero," which can be translated as "pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one".
What some New Yorkers see as pluck, others consider attitude, but almost everyone agrees that the panhandler who can make you laugh is the one you're most likely to respond to.
The Bocca Cookbook exactly replicates the experience of eating in Kenedy's restaurant, by which I mean that the delicious-sounding dishes (the majority) soften you up for such things as pluck with artichokes (pluck is the bits – heart, lungs, liver, sweetbreads – that come out when you pull out an animal's windpipe), or focaccia with lung and spleen.
Few subcultural gatherings merge high and low with quite as much pluck.
It took almost as much pluck to sing Figaro's familiar "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia" in the program's second half.
Lamellaphones are typically classified as plucked idiophones instruments whose sounding parts are resonant solids.
Picking them out can be as challenging as plucking feathers from drying concrete.
Van der Sar, who turned 40 last month, made the save look as easy as plucking fruit from a tree.
The boys said the girls were as skinny as plucked chickens; the girls told the boys they had donkeys' teeth.
Such writers have a gift that is as mysterious to nonwriters as plucking melodies out of thin air is to nonmusicians.
