fine-tooth comb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A comb with fine, closely spaced teeth, especially one used for removing head lice and their nits (eggs) from the hair; a nit comb.

   “The practice of combing the heads of children too frequently with a fine tooth comb is a bad one, as the points of the teeth are quite sure to scratch and irritate the scalp, and are almost sure to produce scurf or dandruff.”

2. isim A means of making a thorough search.

   “The police went through his possessions with a fine-tooth comb.”

3. fiil To comb or go through (hair, an animal's fur, etc.) with a comb having fine, closely spaced teeth.
4. fiil To search (something or somewhere) meticulously.

   “"There's one other way of discovering the writer,—find a Rem-Smith typewriter with an alignment imperfect in just this way." "Yes," said Astro. "We might begin and fine-tooth-comb the city for it.:Template:.."”