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to cherry-pick
verb
To pick out the best or most desirable items from a list or group, especially to obtain some advantage or to present something in the best possible light. To select only evidence which supports an argument, and reject or ignore contradictory evidence.
Exact(42)
So to cherry-pick this one incident doesn't make sense.
"You had to cherry-pick for brands that were meaningful".
But the advertisements tend to cherry-pick facts.
Mr. Jacques has a tendency to cherry-pick information however.
They may want to cherry-pick the best titles, though.
And when Europeans are split, America is quite prepared to cherry-pick among them.
Similar(14)
"You don't get to cherry pick.
"I don't believe doctors are able to cherry pick".
No, it fell to 22.8%.But we don't want to cherry pick the data.
This is all well and good, but its easy to cherry pick.
Cameron is able to cherry pick Johnson's track record with little trouble.
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