to pluck off
| to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. |
See also: Pluck
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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'Grieved as I was over the theft, I did not punish the gardener, of whose fidelity I was well assured, but I determined to pluck off all the fruit in the following year before it was ripe, as I had not much belief in the magician's warning.
Don't fall into the temptation to pluck off some bonus advance, however tempting the idea seems.
There's a second option NASA is considering: Sending a spacecraft to a much larger asteroid, using a claw to pluck off a boulder that's less than 30 feet and taking it near to the moon.
The motivation to play for that shirt is complete right now, but unlikely to last long as Europe's big spenders circle to pluck off their best players and possibly Simeone himself.
"There was not a bit of flesh to pluck off him, just bones and carcass.
Unlike the recruits, microbes are too small to pluck off. So after Beaulieu was finished, the squares were frozen for subsequent studies to identify organisms by their DNA.
Looking at the long-term, it would have been better to pluck off the flowers before they opened, thus redirecting the energy flow to root growth.
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- To play booty
- To play devil with
- To play dummy
- To play hob
- To play into a person's hands
- To play off
- To play one's cards
- To play one's cards well
- To play pitch and toss with (anything)
- To play possum
- To play rex
- To play snow one's cards
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- To play the mischief
- To play truant
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- To plow up
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- To pluck down
- to pluck off
- to pluck up
- To pocket a ball
- To pocket an insult
- To point a rope
- To point a sail
- To point at
- To point off
- To point the yards
- To point well
- To poke fun
- To poke fun at
- To polish off
- To poll a jury
- To pop off
- To pop the question
- To post off
- To post over
- To pray in aid
- To preach down
- To preach up
- To preserve game
- To prey on
- To prime a pump
- To promise one's self
- To propose to one's self
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- To play hob
- To play into a person's hands
- to play it by ear
- to play musical chairs
- To play off
- To play one's cards
- to play one's cards close to one's chest
- to play one's cards right/well
- To play one's cards well
- To play pitch and toss with (anything)
- To play possum
- To play possum
- To play rex
- to play Russian roulette
- to play second fiddle
- To play snow one's cards
- to play something by ear
- to play the field
- To Play the Fool
- to play the game
- to play the heavy
- To play the mischief
- to play to the gallery
- To play truant
- To play upon
- to play with fire
- To plow in
- To plow up
- To pluck away
- To pluck down
- to pluck off
- to pluck up
- to plumb the depths
- To pocket a ball
- To pocket an insult
- To point a rope
- To point a sail
- To point at
- To point off
- To point the yards
- To point well
- To poke fun
- To poke fun at
- To poke fun at
- to poke one's nose into
- To polish off
- To poll a jury
- To pop off
- To pop the question
- To pop the question
- To post off
- To post over
- to pour oil on troubled waters
- to pour/throw cold water
- to praise to the skies
- To pray in aid
- To preach down
- To preach up
- To preserve game
- to press the flesh
- To prey on
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