{v. phr.} To criticize or find fault with something, such as a speech, a statement, a theory, etc. * /It is easier to pick holes in someone else's argument than to make a good one yourself./
{v. phr.}, {informal} To find a mistake in or things wrong with; criticize; blame. * /The witness said he had been walking in the moonlight last Sunday, but the lawyer picked a hole in what he said by proving that there was no moon and that it rained Sunday night./ * /Mary is always picking holes in what the other girls do./ Compare: FIND FAULT.