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Adjective

blow-by-blow ‎(not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Detailing every action or occurrence completely.

   He gave a blow-by-blow account of the entire trip.

   • 2000, Yunzhong Shu, Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0791444376, chapter 2, 58:

     In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.

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Noun

blow-by-blow ‎(plural blow-by-blows)

1. (idiomatic) An account, description, or commentary including every detail of the action or event.

   The media published a blow-by-blow of the trial as it happened.

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