What does "picking petals" mean?

[Inneedofusername]

Dictionary can't translate it for me

[Wharvey98]

I’ve never heard that phrase before, I’d suggest a thesaurus. They typically are better for phrases than a dictionary. Alternatively you could try Urban Dictionary, but that’s a bit of crapshoot. You never know what your gonna see there, and some things can’t be unseen.

[dantetheexplorer]

It depends on the context. If you share the context it was used in, I could provide a clue as to what the writer/song-writer/screenwriter is referring or alluding to.

At least you're not asking about "flower picking".

[dantetheexplorer]

In that case, it is exactly what @311WasAnInsideJam was referring to. "She loves me. She loves me not."

[dantetheexplorer]

Gram is popular slang for Instagram.
So phrases like "Do it for the gram" means "Do it so that you can take a picture and post on Instagram."

[dantetheexplorer]

@Inneedofusername Also, just for your reference, at weddings, people typically drop/throw petals of flowers, as a way to highlight purity. So someone who ends up "picking petals" at a wedding, well, that might allude to several different things, including perhaps, loss of innocence or purity.

[311WasAnInsideJam]

I might need context here, but the act of pulling the petals off of a flower one at a time, usually accompanied by "She loves me. She loves me not."

[Inneedofusername]

Well that makes sense. It's a verse from Bring Me The Horizon new song, "heavy metal"

So I keep picking petals,
I'm afraid you don't love me anymore
Cause some kid on the gram says he used to be a fan
But this ain't heavy metal

What does "on the gram" means? I'm not a native English speaker obviously

[311WasAnInsideJam]

Maybe Instagram? I don't know

[311WasAnInsideJam]

Just couldn't say it due to copyright

[Eryxx]

I think it's selecting one of the binary choices by picking the petals of a flower one by one and saying the choices alternatively each time you pick a petal.

[Tilin29]

Picking petals - When you tear off the thingies off the roses. If you ever saw a scene of: "He loves me, he loves me not"

[jimyee]

Maybe a "he loves me, he loves me not" kind of thing? I don't think I've ever heard that phrase so I'm just kinda guessing.

[ZeussLightningBolt]

Zbierac te rzeczy co kwiatki maja. Sam nie wiem jak to sie nazywa po Polsku.

[Leon4rd]

prhase picking off petals, more like a deciding game.. yes or not,
but for me. picking off petals mean just let it go, we dont want to waste our time for such unsure opinion/feeling.

[Tslaveee]

Wishing upon something, deciding.

[GreenGold1992]

Never heard of it