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going-over

NOUN
  1. a careful and thorough inspection
  2. a severe scolding

How To Use going-over In A Sentence

  • He gets a terrible going-over in these pages.
  • The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
  • The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
  • When will he understand that his department is out of control and needs a thorough going-over from top to bottom?
  • The document will need a careful going-over before we make a decision.
  • It's been a while since one of the great composers got a thorough biographical going-over, but I gather that the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has interesting stuff to say about his hero, JS Bach, in the Penguin volume due for early 2008.
  • Michael was given a complete going-over and then treated for glandular fever.
  • The machine needs a proper going-over.
  • The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
  • Nonetheless, no one would assert that Mamet is unobservant or lacks internal fire, and when he turns his attention to institutions that deserve a thorough going-over, he may be just the man for the job.
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