dot the i's

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Verb

dot the i's (third-person singular simple present dots the i's, present participle dotting the i's, simple past and past participle dotted the i's)

  1. Synonym of dot the i's and cross the t's.
    • 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 115:
      And Mussolini obligingly dotted the i’s.