单词 | dot the i's and cross the t's |
释义 | dot the i's and cross the t'sBe meticulous and precise, fill in all the particulars, as in Laura had dotted all the i's and crossed the t's, so she wondered what she'd done wrong. This expression presumably began as an admonition to schoolchildren to write carefully and is sometimes shortened. William Makepeace Thackeray had it in a magazine article (Scribner's Magazine, 1849): “I have . . . dotted the i's.” [Mid-1800s] Words nearby dot the i's and cross the t'sdot product, dot-sequential, dotted, dotted line, dotterel, dot the i's and cross the t's, Dottie, dottle, dotty, doty, Dou The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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