Meaning of cross the t's and dot the i's | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [C2]

Examples

“Regional office technical staffs do the main nuts and bolts crossing the "t's" and dotting the "i's", if you will , providing the types of expertise , financial or otherwise , that it is unfair to expect EDRs to have to that degree and that depth.”

“[…] at the September signing of the Lusaka Agreement, which, other than straightening out details, really amounted to crossing the t's and dotting the i's; and during the four phases of economic and technical negotiations when, under the cover of building fraternal relations, neocolonial persuasions surfaced.”

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