noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
easy
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Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.
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The music that's finally being aired, fifty years on. Easy pickings .
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He says it's unfortunately easy pickings so it's on the increase.
rich
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Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.
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They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings .
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Not the richest of pickings , usually left to the fly-by-night minicabs.
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So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings .
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Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings .
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It would have yielded particularly rich pickings .
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A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.
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Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.
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Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.
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Soaring inflation means lean pickings for the majority.
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They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings .
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What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!