pick apart
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart.
2
Idiomatic To review or analyse in great detail
3
Idiomatic To criticise (especially small details).
- The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport: