get technical

idiom

informal
: to be very exact or precise (about something)
I'm not really 18 years old until tomorrow, if you want to get technical about it.

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Coverage of big data and surveillance can get technical, and most discussions are prone to devolving into repetitive polemics, but Schneier’s book is a tour de force that keeps the reader engaged. — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2015 Your torso length is the distance from where your shoulders and neck meet (the C7 vertebra to get technical) to the point of the lower back that’s aligned with your hip bones. — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2024

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