- a comb in which the pointed parts are thin and very close together
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Idioms
See fine-tooth comb in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo over/through something with a fine-tooth/fine-toothed comb
- to examine or search something very carefully
- The police have gone over the house with a fine-tooth comb.
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