blow-by-blow description

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• (a) blow-by-blow description (of something) — a ˌblow by ˌblow acˈcount, deˈscription, etc. (of sth) idiom (informal) a description of an event which gives you all the details in the order in which they happen • He insisted on giving us a blow by blow account of what had happened. Main entry …   Useful english dictionary

• blow by blow — A blow by blow description gives every detail in sequence …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• blow-by-blow — a blow by blow description of an event gives every detail of how it happened. She gave me a blow by blow account of her car crash …   New idioms dictionary

• blow by blow —    A blow by blow description gives every detail in sequence.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• blow-by-blow — adj a blow by blow account/description etc an account that includes all the details of an event exactly as they happened ▪ Jenny bored us with a blow by blow account of her holiday …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• blow-by-blow — adjective only before noun a blow by blow account or description is extremely detailed: She insisted on giving us a blow by blow account of her entire trip …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• description — [n1] account in speech, writing ABCs*, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration,… …   New thesaurus

• Blow Your House Down — is the second novel by Pat Barker. Published in 1984, the novel follows the lives of a number of prostitutes working in a northern English city at a time when a serial killer of prostitutes is haunting the area. The main focus is on two… …   Wikipedia

• blow-by-blow — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a description of an event) giving all the details in the order in which they occurred …   English terms dictionary

• blow-by-blow — adjective providing great detail a blow by blow account of the movie • Similar to: ↑careful * * * | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : minutely detailed a blow by blow account of the campaign * * * /bloh buy bloh /, adj. 1. precisely detail …   Useful english dictionary

• description — n. 1) to give, provide a description 2) to answer to a description (he answers to the description of the escaped convict) 3) to beggar, defy description 4) an accurate, correct, exact; blow by blow; clear; detailed, thorough; firsthand; glowing;… …   Combinatory dictionary