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connect the dots

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connect the dots
to understand the relationship between different ideas or experiences. It took years of hard work to connect the dots between the murder and the suspect.
Etymology: from a children's activity in which a picture can be seen when you draw lines to connect numbered dots (= small, round marks)
See also: dot


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``Why take political-science courses and government courses if you can't connect the dots with your own political engagement?
This initiative, the AASA Center for System Leadership, was founded on the conviction that school leaders must think about the disparate pieces of a school system's work and pull them together--in essence to connect the dots.
The audience, in turn, is asked to connect the dots between then and now.
 
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