deshojar

To strip leaves or petals off a plant, or pages out of a book — deshojar una rosa, deshojar un cuaderno. Its best-known use is in the fixed expression deshojar la margarita, for agonizing indecisively over a choice, like plucking daisy petals.

• El viento deshojó las rosas del jardín. — The wind stripped the petals off the roses in the garden.
• Deshojó el calendario hoja por hoja hasta encontrar la fecha. — He tore the calendar page by page until he found the date.
• Llevaba días deshojando la margarita sobre si aceptar el trabajo. — He'd spent days agonizing over whether to accept the job.

Deshojar la margarita is specifically about indecision — don't use it for someone simply thinking something over calmly; it implies real, drawn-out hesitation.

• expression "Deshojar la margarita" — A well-known fixed expression for agonizing indecision, based on the custom of plucking a daisy's petals one by one — 'loves me, loves me not' — to leave a decision to chance.