fine-tooth-comb
Example Sentences
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“We need to go back through that bill with a fine tooth comb and make it better,” Marshall said in an interview with Newsmax.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025
After asking her colleague Sarah if she could post an appeal on the shop's Facebook page, Morganne "went through the shop with a fine tooth comb".
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024
“You can look and go through with a fine tooth comb of the unit itself,” Carberry said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2022
"It's truly going back to the drawing board," Smith says, "taking a fine tooth comb to their budget and their investments."
From US News • Sep. 9, 2016
That's th' first place they'll ride when th' round-up starts an' as soon as Beck hears the Tank's gone he'll go over that place himself with a fine tooth comb.
From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold
