/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Finished to the Finger-nail
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or “ad unguem,” in allusion to statuaries running their finger-tips over a statue to detect if any roughness or imperfection of surface remains.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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