pick up off
Frequency: 7.921.8 per million words
To lift something off a surface it is resting on.
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Examples (10)
- Please pick the pen up off the table.
- She gently picked the baby up off the bed.
- Could you pick that book up off the shelf?
- He picked the dropped keys up off the pavement.
- The crane will pick the heavy container up off the dock.
- Don't forget to pick your clothes up off the floor.
- We watched him pick the small child up off the ground.
- I had to pick all the scattered papers up off my desk.
- He carefully picked the fragile ornament up off the mantelpiece.
- Can you pick the remote control up off the sofa?