to be precise

idiom

—used to indicate that a statement is accurate and specific

one night in early summer—June 22, to be precise

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Besides teaming up with Chappell Roan at the Ludovic de Saint Sernin front row, the rapper also arrived fashionably later — an hour late, to be precise — at the Off-White fall 2025 show. —Renan Botelho, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025

That’s right, Blair Waldorf and Lily van der Woodsen — well, Leighton Meester and Kelly Rutherford to be precise — linked up at the Elie Saab Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 fashion show on Saturday, March 8. —Bailey Richards, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025

Yet the story of this election, really, is how close Germany came to a different outcome – within 0.03% of the final vote, to be precise. —Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2025

Big blue sombrero Monday, November 25, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled outer ring. —Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025

Rhymes for to be precise

• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• suffice
• dice
• feis
• gneiss
• grice