to pick something up from the ground

to pick up; to gather; to collect things from the ground

To collect scrap, waste, or discarded items (often to sell for money or reuse)

To get something at a low price or to get a great deal for little cost.

To focus on small, trivial gains at the expense of something much more important; literally to pick up a sesame seed while losing a watermelon

to pick up something found; to find and collect

literally meaning "whatever is picked into the basket counts as food"; an idiom used to describe accepting whatever is available or making use of everything that comes one's way

stagehand who arranges props and scenery for a stage performance; the work of doing so

(slang) to target an intoxicated person for sexual assault, usually by taking them home from a bar or club while they are unconscious or incapacitated

to buy a valuable item at a very low price, usually because the seller does not know its true value; to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity

To seize on or take advantage of an opponent's mistakes or gaps

To collect discarded items for reuse or sale; (figuratively) to pick up things others have discarded, such as poor-quality manuscripts

to gather the bones of the deceased for reburial after the flesh has decayed

A custom in Taiwan and Fujian where the bones of a deceased ancestor are exhumed, cleaned, and placed in an urn to be reburied in a new location.