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pick of the litter
Idioms and Phrases
The best of a group, as in He was first in the ticket line so he had the pick of the litter . This term, alluding to the most desirable one from a litter of puppies or kittens, supplanted such earlier variants as pick of the market, pick of the parish , and pick of the basket . [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
When McConnell stepped down as leader, he had pick of the litter over committee assignments.
And at the end of each weekend, I had the pick of the litter with jerseys.
The pick of the litter is probably the problematic Seamus, who despairs at how terms like “witness and legacy of violence and valid” transform class into “a tribunal for war crimes.”
Feline fans have their pick of the litter when it comes to helping out at this no-kill cat shelter in Gaithersburg.
“Gravity” is perhaps the pick of the litter here.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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