1. to be precise - Adverb
2. to be precise - Phrase
in actual fact
Source: WordNetI gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November - on the third of November, to be precise - and I remember every instant since. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Jeanette Winterson
God wanted a blood sacrifice. God had shed innocent blood to cover the sin of Adam and Eve. Cain knew God wanted a bloody animal sacrifice, a lamb to be precise. Cain thought that he could get favor with God by bringing the work of his own hands. Kent Hovind
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. John Ruskin
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. Linn Ullmann
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. Michael Nesmith