go into detail
idiom
: to discuss or describe everything about something including the small or unimportant parts
The newspaper reports went into (great) detail about his political background.
I will try to tell the story without going into too much detail.
Examples of go into detail in a Sentence
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The state's summary of the current project didn't go into detail about the reason for the 2024 work, but state officials previously did during a similar project in 2018.
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Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
Trader Joe's didn't go into detail about the reasons behind the price increase, but food prices have remained stubbornly high, even as inflation has cooled.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
Chinese officials did not go into detail about the upcoming counternarcotics meeting in Beijing, which has not yet been publicly announced.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
United did not go into detail on the nature of the issue.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
Nestor Iglesias, a spokesman for U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, the lead agency in the case, wouldn’t go into detail about the incident.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Standing on Business The affable Timberlake didn’t ruminate about his past or go into detail about his comeback because the small talk was out the window for tonight’s festivities.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
Beeper's blog post about the outage and subsequent restoration doesn't go into detail about how Apple was able to block Beeper Mini, nor how the service managed to restore iMessage functions for users.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
Just Sam did not go into detail about what went awry with the label, financially or personally.
—Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
Trader Joe's didn't go into detail about the reasons behind the price increase, but food prices have remained stubbornly high, even as inflation has cooled.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
Chinese officials did not go into detail about the upcoming counternarcotics meeting in Beijing, which has not yet been publicly announced.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
United did not go into detail on the nature of the issue.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
Nestor Iglesias, a spokesman for U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, the lead agency in the case, wouldn’t go into detail about the incident.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Standing on Business The affable Timberlake didn’t ruminate about his past or go into detail about his comeback because the small talk was out the window for tonight’s festivities.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
Beeper's blog post about the outage and subsequent restoration doesn't go into detail about how Apple was able to block Beeper Mini, nor how the service managed to restore iMessage functions for users.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
Just Sam did not go into detail about what went awry with the label, financially or personally.
—Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
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“Go into detail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20into%20detail. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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