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 pipe in an ivy leaf
- To pitch (a) camp
- To pitch into
- To place in the background
- To play at ducks and drakes
- 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
- To play the fool
- To play the mischief
- To play truant
- To play upon
- To plow in
- To plow up
- To pluck away
- 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 up to one
- to play up to somebody
- to play up to someone
- To play upon
- to play whack a mole
- to play whack-a-mole
- to play whackamole
- to play with fire
- to play with heart
- to play with house money
- to play with one's heart
- to play with somebody's heart
- to play with someone's heart
- to plead case
- to plead one's case
- to plead somebody's case
- to plead someone's case
- to plough
- to plough somebody
- to plough someone
- to plough something
- to plow
- To plow in
- to plow somebody
- to plow someone
- To plow up
- to pluck a crow
- to pluck a crow with someone
- To pluck away
- To pluck down
- to pluck off
- to pluck up
- to plumb the depths
- to plumb the depths of
- to plumb the depths of something
- 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 poison mind
- to poison one's mind
- to poison somebody's mind
- to poison someone's mind
- to poison the well
- to poke eyes out
- To poke fun
- To poke fun
- To poke fun at
- To poke fun at
- to poke one's eyes out
- to poke one's nose into
- to poke somebody's eyes out
- to poke someone's eyes out
- to poke the bear
- to polish act
- To polish off
- to polish one's act
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