dotting the i's
Example Sentences
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"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
While this setup is effective, there is a sense of the pro forma in the way “Star Trek Beyond” carefully makes its appointed rounds, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2016
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
