To find fault with one; to fix on some small offence as censurable.
“And shall such mob as thou, not worth a groat,
Dare pick a hole in such a great man’s coat?”
Peter Pindar: Epistle to John Nichols.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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