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with a fine-tooth comb

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with a fine-tooth comb
if you examine something with a fine-tooth comb, you examine every part of it very carefully I'd advise you to examine your insurance policy with a fine-tooth comb to make sure you're covered if you take your car abroad.
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lt;p>This has meant going over his network architecture with a fine-tooth comb and making the difficult decision to cut the redundancy -- and the ability to immediately come back quickly after a disaster or outage -- from his multi-link infrastructure.
Faced during the past decade by a bunch of big-volume building projects in various historic districts, the board has gone over plans with a fine-tooth comb -- often as not turning initial drawings down, demanding diminished height and more graceful setbacks from the curb.
On top of that, his actual debates were videotaped and gone over by the consultants with a fine-tooth comb before the next event.
 
 
 
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