| Subject | English | Russian |
| slang | like trying to pick up a turd by its clean end | пытаться совершить невозможное (Political Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by clean end! Harry S. Truman VLZ_58) |
| slang | like trying to pick up a turd by its clean end | из разряда невозможного (VLZ_58) |
| gen. | pick clean | отделить (Pavlov Igor) |
| inf. | pick clean | обобрать до нитки (SirReal) |
| inf. | pick clean | снять три шкуры (SirReal) |
| inf. | pick clean | обчистить (дерево; The thief picked the tree clean. – обчистил  news1130.com ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | pick clean | очистить (напр., перья от тушки или очистить шерсть Pavlov Igor) |
| gen. | pick the bone clean | обглодать кость |
| gen. | pick the flesh clean | обглодать кости дочиста ("As they approached they saw, clinging to the horse's throat, with claws buried in the shoulders, and its jaws having a firm grip on the poor creature's throat, what appeared to be a monstrous lizard. (...) And of the horses that had been attacked, only their skeletons remained, the ferocious reptiles having picked the flesh clean." mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver) |
| inf. | pick the skeleton clean | объесть тело до скелета (напр., о пираньях YudinMS) |
