be plucked in English

fail an examination (British Slang)

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1. Political dishonesty ought to be plucked up by the roots.

2. Banjo definition is - a musical instrument with a drumlike body, a fretted neck, and usually four or five strings which may be plucked or strummed.

3. The Sinfonia Concertante is in part about an extraordinary abundance of ideas and sonorities which - thanks to Mozart's art - pour out with a seeming effortlessness, like ripened fruit simply there to be plucked

4. Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet - scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children's hands, in front- yard plots -- now standing by wallsides in retired pastures, and giving place to new- rising forests; -- the last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.