have one's pick
Decide among options
To have one's pick is to be able to choose freely from available options: With three job offers on the table, she had her pick.
The phrase implies an enviable position—multiple good choices and the power to select among them.
The top recruit had his pick of universities.
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
- optionAvailable course of action
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- carte blancheTotal freedom to choose
- free reinUnrestricted freedom to act
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