Picked prematurely, the beans are scrawny, with bland flavor; picked too late, they're on their way to becoming dry soybeans.
But AQ Khan said that the cricket legend had picked too many "old faces" to make his party attractive.
No matter how red a tomato is, if it was picked to be shipped to a faraway supermarket, then it was picked too soon.
To everything there is a political season, and in an era of high unemployment and record deficits a president who picked too many fights on non-economic issues would find himself an ex-president soon enough.
Allardyce accepted some culpability for his part in this chastening defeat, admitting he picked too many offensive players, but he was more troubled by his team's collapse after a sprightly offering in the first half.
Shakespeare was responsible for the modern meaning of odd when it is applied to people – in Love's Labour's Lost, the Spaniard Don Adriano de Armado is described as "too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were".
