rake over

"How many times do we have to rake over this old ground?"

The details of the mission were raked over one more time.

Seriously though you need to leave things in the past, instead of raking over 30 year old stories.

Jesse's eyes raked over her as he walked to where she stood.

All those issues had been raked over before, of course - but always smoothly, the participants said.

They rake over every quarter of this beautiful, false city.

She was going to get raked over the coals, no matter what.

Your first task will be to rake over this elevator and place it under our control.

For now, there are much more important things than raking over the past."

But every square meter of the surface had been raked over.

What matters most is not to rake over these old controversies.

His teammates, many of them veterans, did not like seeing Green raked over, either.

Surely to God they weren't going to rake over the whole wretched business again.

The lights were harsh, now raking over the whole boat and the sea at either end.

But then, most of them hadn't had a knife raked over their throats.

Paks saw his eyes rake over her and return to the captain's face.

The borders were neatly raked over and the roses cut back.

Please be assured that I have no wish to rake over old ashes.

There was some resemblance; perhaps in the way his eyes had raked over her without seeming to.

I fully plan to be raked over the coals by some readers.

Memory had taken on a new meaning for him now, something to be raked over, examined, rebuilt.

"I hope you're happy now that I've been raked over the coals.

An old, tired anger was in his voice; embers raked over but not dead.

Am I not just raking over the embers of my own little life?"

"I've never been so raked over the coals for something that nobody's seen," he said.