run the rule over

English

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Verb

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  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To examine carefully and thoroughly.
    • 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport‎:
      The captain used to to run the rule over every new recruit, like a protective father inspecting the boy his darling daughter had brought home to tea. He was obsessive about it.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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