>>>It seems you try to pick the raisins.
>>
>>Pick the raisins ?
>
>ooops
>German saying
>
>You pick the raisins out of the cake.
>IOW I take only the "valueable" things.
>
>update:
>one of my daughters doesn't like raisins, so she never understand the saying ...

I didn't like raisins either. Maybe she doesn''t want to be vaccinated :-)