go into particulars

I won't go into particulars of what our relations were.

"Suppose I give you a quick summary, from the start, before we go into particulars."

Here he also happily violates his own rule never to go into particulars of private life.

You all know what I'm talking about, so I won't embarrass the department heads by going into particulars.

His calm sympathy encouraged Larry to go into particulars.

"I'm not going into particulars of the case," Kovac stated stubbornly.

I will not go into particulars of that episode, nor how we quarrelled and chafed one another.

He refused to go into particulars.

She didn't go into particulars.

The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.

Guffy described her as the "fattest of all fat women" and went into particulars regarding her age and weight.

Everybody judiciously shirked the question of which was the true Pope and refrained from naming him, it being clearly dangerous to go into particulars in this matter.

Milk, water, whisky, molasses, castor oil, camphene, carbolic acid--it is no use to go into particulars; whatever fluid occurs to you set it down.

Tracy didn't know quite how to reply to this, but presently said, "Well, without going into particulars; I exchanged clothes with a stranger under stress of weather, and I would like to find him and re- exchange."

"That drunken man that stuck a pitchfork into Mrs. Welch's baby when--" "Never mind about it, you needn't go into particulars; it was to discipline the child--that much is certain, anyway."

It was through Mr. Blank--not to go into particulars about his name--it was mainly through Mr. Blank that my stay in Bendigo was made memorably pleasant and interesting.

He hoped to pick up some information on those fellows, Calhoun told her, without going into particulars; he thought he would; and, if he succeeded, the information would be passed on to the nearest precinct house for appropriate action.

"No, I don't believe so," Ned answered; "though, in fact, I don't know enough of the place to be in a position to give you any information about it," he told the man, not deeming it wise to go into particulars.

It turned out that the female was a confirmed kleptomaniac and had been using the space between her dress and whatever she was wearing under her dress--I'm not a married man myself, so can't go into particulars--as a safe deposit."

1978's 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)' and 1980's 'Used Cars' (starring Kurt Russell) were well-received critically, with Pauline Kael going into particular rhapsody over the latter film, but both were commercially inert.

Without going into particulars and naming names with his FBI contact, Donovan had been able to convey the precise parameters of his search, including the fact that the person he was seeking had probably been traveling under a newly issued passport and traveling with a baby.

Mr. Swain, who has often urged Mr. Dorr to invest more rapidly in cutting-edge technology, occasionally chafes at more mundane tasks like analyzing past weather data to be sure the strains of corn now going into particular fields are likely to have time to mature before harvest.

I have my plan all mapped out, whereby I hope and expect to acquire complete and perfect control of the sun-spots, also details of the method whereby I shall employ the same commercially; but I will not venture to go into particulars before the patents shall have been issued.