Timeline for Idiom for explaining something too thoroughly
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| May 5, 2018 at 5:05 | answer | added | user184411 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 13:02 | answer | added | Beth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 2:16 | comment | added | Kris | Ironing the shoelaces is a good one the picture it brings to mind of a fussy butler being overly concerned with minute detail makes me smile | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 18:17 | comment | added | GEdgar | "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." --Shakespeare, Hamlet | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 18:13 | answer | added | David W | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 17:00 | comment | added | John Bode | This from a coworker, after he realized he'd just spent 10 minutes explaining something to me in way too much detail - "You asked for a pencil, I told you how to build a typewriter." | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 12:34 | answer | added | AJFaraday | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 22:05 | history | protected | ab2 | ||
| Sep 4, 2017 at 21:57 | answer | added | Bill Porter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 16:57 | answer | added | VividD | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 16:41 | answer | added | Geeb | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 10:53 | answer | added | ShopTech | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 10:31 | comment | added | camden_kid | I'd suggest "Overkill". | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 6:18 | comment | added | user71581 | "Getting granular" - I can't stand the phrase but many people I work with can't get enough of it. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 0:51 | answer | added | samgak | timeline score: 40 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 20:06 | answer | added | fralau | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 18:01 | history | edited | 1006a | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added additional information from OP's comment, with light edits
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 17:50 | answer | added | Birkensox | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 15:59 | answer | added | filistinist | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 8:18 | answer | added | Jamie Hanrahan | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 7:09 | answer | added | Debbie Wilson | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 5:00 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | I would use the phrase "explaining [something] atom by atom"—but as far as I know, it isn't an idiom. | |
| S Sep 3, 2017 at 2:44 | history | suggested | Daniel Austin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Spelling of context
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 2:23 | comment | added | Daniel Austin | In some situations, it might be appropriate to use the expression going all round the houses. An explanation that goes all round the houses, is one that includes a lot of unnecessary detail and fails to get to the point quickly. | |
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| Sep 2, 2017 at 22:44 | comment | added | Angmar | I was looking for a phrase of some sort, somewhat pejorative but funny one - idiom, colloquialism or something multi-word. In my language we have a saying that someone explaines something and "includes the root" or "explain every pond and pool", e.g. when someone asks the shortest way from a point A to a point B, and instead of telling which one it is, you start describing every rock and tree and bush on the way, which really is not at all informative. Pretty much an exact opposite to "cutting to the chase". | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 22:36 | answer | added | htmlcoderexe | timeline score: 17 | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 22:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/904103922146705409 | ||
| Sep 2, 2017 at 21:41 | answer | added | Weather Vane | timeline score: 27 | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | "TMI"... But that's more of a modern colloquialism that an idiom. | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | marcellothearcane | Like 'nitpicking' or 'splitting hairs'? Not exclusively related to explaining things though. They might be 'flogging a dead horse' too... | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 20:04 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2017 at 20:02 | vote | accept | Angmar | ||
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:58 | comment | added | Anonym | Such an explanation is long-winded and the speaker a windbag. | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:40 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | If, in case, you were looking for single words: Word to describe “when someone describes something in too much detail” | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:40 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 29 | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:26 | answer | added | Dr Xorile | timeline score: -6 | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:06 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:05 | history | asked | Angmar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |