blame vs pick apart

blame

verb
  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize. 

  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

  • To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). 

noun
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable. 

  • A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. 

  • Censure. 

  • Responsibility for something meriting censure. 

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 blame and pick apart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )