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单词 to tick the boxes
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to tick (also check) (all) the (right) boxes
P11. figurative. to tick (also check) (all) the (right) boxes and variants: to fulfil the requirements; to have (all) the necessary or expected attributes.In North America check is more commonly used in this phrase; elsewhere tick predominates to a greater or lesser extent.
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1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 113/3 These were relatively easy targets, a matter of checking the right boxes.
1993 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 26 Nov. The Bank..ticked all the boxes…but it was obvious no time went into their report.
1994 Frank (Ottawa) 3 Mar. 9/4 Checks all the boxes, domestically, but proud confession to government job a strike against him.
2005 Independent 26 Sept. 32/1 We do not do this with a view to ticking the right boxes, but because..we believe it is..the right thing to do.
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