Relier Pairs Idioms "Book reviews"Version en ligne Different idioms to review books and other kinds of writing. Advanced level par Natalia Tolstopyat 1 to be an armchair critic 2 to wade through 3 it was heavy going 4 to do a hatchet job on something 5 a page turner 6 to pick holes in the plot an exciting book that you read quickly to criticize, but without any personal expertise to finish reading something, but with difficulty difficult to read or understand to find mistakes in plot, to criticize criticize strongly and cruelly