allow vs pick apart

allow

verb
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

pick apart

verb
  • To criticise (especially small details). 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart. 

  • To overcome by skilled execution. 

  • To review or analyse in great detail 

How often have the words allow and pick apart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )