pickin' and grinnin'
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[edit]pickin' and grinnin' (uncountable)
- (chiefly US, music, idiomatic) Vigorous playing of folk or country music on a stringed musical instrument, especially the guitar or banjo, while smiling broadly.
- 1987 March 20, Scott Mervis, “Country Slickers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 3 Jan. 2009, page 19:
- From Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap there was a lot less pickin’ and grinnin’ and a lot more soft rockers and heartbroken love ballads.
- 2008 June 25, Joe Edwards, “Guitar-playing 'ambassador' greets visitors at Nashville's Hall of Fame”, in USA Today, retrieved 3 Jan. 2009:
- In this city of guitars and grits, Andersen is the ambassador of pickin’ and grinnin’.