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a method of examining in minute detail
he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes - a comb with teeth set close together
How To Use fine-tooth comb In A Sentence
- After going over your resume with a fine-tooth comb, solicit proofreading assistance from trusted friends and colleagues.
- It just shows you, kids, don't ever sign a statement if you haven't been through it with a fine-tooth comb.
- The police went over the scene of the crime with a fine-tooth comb.
- The police went over the scene of the crime with a fine-tooth comb.
- I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb.
- They can be utterly thorough, go through the text with a fine-tooth comb, changing every "Gonnae naw dae that!" to "Going to not do that? More on Critique
- It might contain an underlying message that overrides careful analysis discoverable only by the few who go through it with a fine-tooth comb.
- he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes
- We found the latter lounging about the unwholesome streets; and the former seated at their thresholds, engaged in those pursuits of the chase which the use of a fine-tooth comb would undignify to mere slaughter. Venetian Life