dotting the i's
Example Sentences
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I remember signing “Laura” to multiple carbon-copy contracts using different signatures, dotting the i’s with hearts and stars …an exclamation point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
"Were dotting the i's and crossing the t's and fingers crossed we'll be able to make an announcement in the forthcoming weeks."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022
“We’re dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s and making sure the legislation is ready,” Filler-Corn said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
‘Yeah, we will. I mean, we have it all done and it's just a question of dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Yes, we will, absolutely,’ Sanders said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 2, 2019
Then underneath the following excerpta—crossing the t's and dotting the i's of certain moderate movements of late years—I am fain to fancy the foundations of quite a lesson learn'd.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
