with a fine-tooth comb

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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. How to cut network expenses by Network World Middle East 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. OUR VIEW: H-BOARD ACTS ON HOTEL; CHURCH'S PROJECT NEXT? by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) On top of that, his actual debates were videotaped and gone over by the consultants with a fine-tooth comb before the next event. The Tao of debate; Study hard to appear spontaneous by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)			wire ahead wire back to wire for wire in wire together wire up wired into wisdom wise wise as Solomon wise to wise up wiser wish wish away wish for wish list wish on wish the ground would swallow up wishful thinking wit witch with a bang but with a whimper with a capital with a capital [A etc.] with a fine-tooth comb with a heavy heart with a vengeance with a view to doing with advance notice with all due respect with all heart with all the fixin's with all the trimmings with an eye to with back against the wall with bare hands with bated breath with bells on with both barrels with child with each passing day with ease with every breath with everything with eyes closed with eyes open with flying colors with for some time With friends like that, who needs enemies? with good reason			WITFOR Witful WITG Witgenstein Witgenstein with with with with with with with (one's) eyes closed with (one's) eyes closed with (one's) eyes closed with (one's) eyes closed with (one's) eyes open with (one's) eyes open with (one's) eyes open with (one's) eyes open with (one's) pants down with (one's) pants down with a bang but with a whimper With a Bit of Luck with a capital with a capital with a capital with a capital with a capital with a capital with a capital [A etc.] with a fine-tooth comb With A Golden Spirit, Inc. with a grain of salt with a grain of salt with a grain of salt with a grain of salt with a grain of salt with a heavy heart with a high degree of certainty With A Tear in My Eye with a valid will with a vengeance with a vengeance with a vengeance with a vengeance with a vengeance with a view to doing With a will With a witness with advance notice with alacrity with all (one's) heart with all (one's) heart with all (one's) heart with all (one's) heart With all deliberate speed With all due respect With all due respect With all due respect With all due respect With all due respect

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