dot the i's

English

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.