Picking Bone out of Eggs – Chinese Idiom
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It literally means ‘to pick bones inside an egg’ which sounds very figurative but ironically, it’s not always so. ... Well, that certainly is one way to look at this but I am sure vegans still have a bone to pick with me because I am not being picky enough with my food. http://www.foodragon.com/2013/10/04/picking-bones-in-an-egg/