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Meanings of rich pickings in English

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Usage of rich pickings in English
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IODINE Indeed there are, potentially, rich pickings to be had from such research.
Reuters
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The games may also provide rich pickings for real estate developers.
Reuters
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The private health industry, looking for rich pickings, will come away confused and disappointed.
The Guardian
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But for those trading physical oil there are rich pickings.
Reuters
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There must have been rich pickings for years after.
The gunslinger
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Neither tournament, though, provided rich pickings for our leaders.
The Irish Times
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The client is looking for the funding. Australia has offered rich pickings for Asian contractors.
Reuters
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One officer told Reuters that the five-hour route can provide rich pickings for the German taxman.
Reuters
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These birds are fleeting visitors - here for the rich pickings one day, gone the next.
Radio NZ
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There are rich pickings for these site-specific works.
The Irish Times
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An' afterwards"-hegrinned, showing a couple of missing teeth-"it'llbe rich pickings, I'll bet.
The dark griffin
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The Tory party has strong links with private healthcare companies, which are set to garner rich pickings.
The Guardian
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You hear such stories about it from the boys travelling the trains: rich pickings, plenty of food.
The Guardian
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And with no one championing the economic needs of ordinary workers this leaves rich pickings for Donald Trump.
Radio NZ
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That one would have been rich pickings, had the father, our late governor, not gone to his rest.
Caleb's crossing
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But if there would appear to be rich pickings to be had at the Lane, Redknapp urged caution.
The Guardian
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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