chapter and verse
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As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
They were keyed to chapter and verse, and by the end of the century, page numbers came into use.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
We’re about to get chapter and verse of how good this young team really are.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2022
He knows chapter and verse of the Catholic social teaching Francis’ fame has brought back to the fore.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
The family split up and Minnie was raised by a grandmother who can quote the Bible chapter and verse and drives a beat-up Cadillac with a CB radio in it.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
