Chrissy Metz

Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?

American Actress

A. A. Gill

It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.

British Writer

Paul Samuelson

There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.

American Economist

Tom Sizemore

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

American Actor

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

English Environmentalist

Carrie Fisher

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Suggests limited or remaining options, often after better choices were taken.

Availability Nuance

Common in informal conversations, not for formal documents.

Colloquial Use

Often used metaphorically to talk about non-physical choices like opportunities.

Metaphorical Context

Refers to the result or outcome of a gathering, often agricultural.

Harvest Context

Can be used figuratively for outcomes of non-physical collecting, like ideas.

Figurative Meaning

Often related to seasons or times when collecting or harvesting occurs.

Seasonal Relevance

 you're living life like they used to live it it's a lot of hard work that's why everybody doesn't do it you know the Gold's way up prices well that's why the price is up because it's hard to get to it's pretty of Lucy know all the easy pickings gone now it's more of a hobby

California Drought...

 helps ah there we go castor says what amazing landscape indeed it is now you can see some vultures just at the top of screen that's where they were where they killed the little antelope earlier when it was a very slim pickings for the vultures

The 5 Musketeers Have an...

 I think you might want to back up a little bit there. As opportunists, these lizards will try and eat anything they think they can get away with, even, occasionally, people. It seems that pickings around the guides' huts must be pretty good,

Largest Lizard on Earth...

 competition approaches in the wild bears often fight over fools and only the brownest wins the right to eat but in Mammoth the pickings are so rich that a peaceful solution can usually be found besides when your heads in a box the

Bear Caught Eating Junk...

 hyenas they may commute the distance of two marathons to get here but for such easy pickings the rewards are worth it

Hair-Raising Hyena...

 But despite the rich pickings, it's not the Daspletosaurus that are responsible for the scale of the slaughter.

Dinosaur Massacre PIPE...

Dinosaurs: Just Big...

 as the fire starts to retreat others brave the heat patrolling the front line for easy pickings

Fire and Feast PIPE A...

Nature's Mighty Power:...

 for the mother fox it's easy pickings with so many free meals falling from the

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