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Pedantic Dissent Of The Day
ByA reader writes:
Maybe this was a typo, but just in case: All combs are, by definition, "tooth-combs." The expression you want here is "fine-toothed comb," meaning a comb with teeth so narrow and closely spaced that nothing will escape them (except, of course, hair, in the metaphor's concrete referent).
My nit is rightly picked.
