to the letter
If you obey instructions or rules to the letter, you do exactly what you have been told to do, giving great attention to every detail:
I followed the instructions to the letter and it still went wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- truly
- unerring
- verbatim
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