pick and choose
Verb
Meaning
pick and choose (third-person singular simple present picks and chooses, present participle picking and choosing, simple past picked and chose, past participle picked and chosen)
(intransitive) To choose selectively or fastidiously.
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Examples
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
I also know you cannot pick and choose. Change is a medicine bundle. You must refuse it altogether, or take the whole thing.
Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.